Neo-pragmatism, communication, and the culture of creative democracy / Omar Swartz, Katia Campbell, Christina Pestana
- Bib ID:
- 4707504
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Swartz, Omar
- Description:
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- New York : Peter Lang, c2009
- x, 175 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781433107313
- Summary:
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"In exploring how John Dewey's notion of a "creative democracy" can be cultivated and advanced through a heightened awareness of the ways in which communication shapes individuals and society, this book helps scholars, activists, and citizens to rethink commonly accepted notions of community in order to imagine new possibilities for social, political, and economic organization - in short, new ways of imagining solidarity and citizenship with others, especially those who languish outside the range of our moral radar."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / by Phillip K. Tompkins
- Introduction
- Democracy and diversity
- Limitations of a market place diversity
- Social justice and the critical imagination
- Rejecting the entertainment model of citizenship
- Creative democracy & the critical imagination
- Communication as epistemic and the communicative imagination
- The communicative imagination
- Exploring our theoretical and methodological assumption
- The critical paradigm
- Neo-pragmatism
- Perspectivalism and cosmopolitanism
- Perspectivalism : de-centering the real
- The contribution of four philosophers to this project
- Nietzsche, cultural criticism, and the good American
- Emerson and the unattained yet attainable self
- Dewey's democracy as a moral problem
- Rorty's anti-foundationalism
- Alienation and power
- Power, alienation, and communication
- Contrasting platonic and critical models of education
- Platonic v. critical models of education
- Critical education
- Service learning
- Theoretical bases for service learning
- Social justice-oriented service learning model.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-167) and index.
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- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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