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Pragmatism and Diversity This page intentionally left blank Pragmatism and Diversity Dewey in the Context of Late Twentieth Century Debates Editedby JudithM.Green,StefanNeubert,andKerstenReich pragmatismanddiversity Copyright©JudithM.Green,StefanNeubert,andKerstenReich,2011. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-33851-7 Allrightsreserved. Firstpublishedin2011by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN® intheUnitedStates—adivisionofSt.Martin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. WherethisbookisdistributedintheUK,EuropeandtherestoftheWorld, thisisbyPalgraveMacmillan,adivisionofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabove companiesandhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnited States,theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-34149-8 ISBN 978-1-137-01060-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137010605 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Pragmatismanddiversity:Deweyinthecontextoflatetwentiethcentury debates/editedbyStefanNeubert,KerstenReich,andJudithM.Green. p. cm. ISBN978–0–230–33851–7(hardback) 1. Pragmatism—History—20thcentury. 2. Pluralism. 3. Dewey,John,1859–1952. I. Neubert,Stefan. II. Reich,Kersten. III. Green,JudithM. B944.P72P7252012 144(cid:2).3—dc23 2011027281 AcataloguerecordofthebookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. DesignbyIntegraSoftwareServices Firstedition:January2012 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Wededicatethisvolumetothememoryofourcolleague,thelate MichaelEldridge,whoseintellectualspirit,courage,andopen-mindedness willbemissed. This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofContributors ix 1 Editors’Introduction 1 2 TheRootsofDiversityinPragmaticThought 11 JamesCampbell 3 TheContextofDiversityversustheProblemofDiversity 25 WilliamJ.Gavin 4 TheGenesisofDemocraticNorms:AgonisticPluralismor Experimentalism? 43 LarryA.Hickman 5 CultivatingPragmatistCosmopolitanism—Democratic Local-and-GlobalCommunityamidstDiversity 55 JudithM.Green 6 Democracy—PracticeasNeeded 85 MichaelEldridge 7 DeweyandLevinasonPluralism,theOther,andDemocracy 99 JimGarrison 8 ReconstructionofPhilosophyandInquiryintoHuman Affairs—DeweyanPragmatisminDialoguewiththe PostmodernSociologyofZygmuntBauman 127 StefanNeubertandKerstenReich 9 DiverseCommunities—Dewey’sTheoryofDemocracyasa ChallengeforFoucault,Bourdieu,andRorty 165 KerstenReich 10 ConcludingConversation:TheFutureofDemocratic Diversity 195 JamesCampbell,MichaelEldridge,JimGarrison,William J.Gavin,JudithM.Green,LarryA.Hickman,StefanNeubert, KerstenReich AuthorIndex 229 SubjectIndex 233 This page intentionally left blank List of Contributors NotesonEditors IsJohnDeweystillanappropriatephilosopherforourtime?Thecomprehen- siveanswertothisquestionthattheeightauthorsgiveinthisvolumeisthat with regard to diversity—a core and intersectional topic of our time—John Dewey’s pragmatism is still a strong and vital philosophical tradition that offersmanyimportantresourcesandcontextstoimproveourthinking.The book develops philosophical discussions about actual challenges of democ- racy and diversity from the perspectives of pragmatism and constructivism. Thecontributorsengageinconversationswithpragmatistthinkersfromear- lierperiodsandproponentsofotherphilosophicaltraditions—aswellaswith each other—in order to reconstruct Deweyan pragmatism and its perspec- tives on democracy and cosmopolitanism in ways that are attuned to our livedexperienceofdiversityaswellasourhopesforadiversity-appreciating democratic future. Such conversations have spurred them to reflect on dif- feringexperiencesofhumanlivingtogetherthatchallengeustorethinkthe meaningofandthemeanstoachievediversity,solidarity,democraticcommu- nity, and cosmopolitan universality, guided by practical exemplifications of theseidealsinthinkingandactionthatsuggesthowweasculture-immersed individualsandmembersofdiversedemocratic“publics”candesirablyadjust our lifeways and our institutions, at local and global levels. Their differing standpoints in experience and their differing focal concerns allow them to engage with diverse authors from other times, other places, and other theo- retical backgrounds. In method and results, these conversations display the potentialsofnewversionsofphilosophicaldebatethatemphasizedifference- inclusivecollaborationsratherthanabstracttheoreticalclaimsofuniversalistic univocity—anewwayofdoingpublicphilosophythroughtheeffortsofsuch diverse communities of inquiry, rather than the separate works of solitary individuals.
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