Pragmatism and Diversity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Editors’ Introduction

   • Judith M. Green, Stefan Neubert, Kersten Reich

   Pages 1-9

3. The Roots of Diversity in Pragmatic Thought

   • James Campbell

   Pages 11-23

4. The Context of Diversity versus the Problem of Diversity

   • William J. Gavin

   Pages 25-42

5. The Genesis of Democratic Norms: Agonistic Pluralism or Experimentalism?

   • Larry A. Hickman

   Pages 43-54

6. Cultivating Pragmatist Cosmopolitanism —Democratic Local-and-Global Community amidst Diversity

   • Judith M. Green

   Pages 55-83

7. Democracy —Practice as Needed

   • Michael Eldridge

   Pages 85-98

8. Dewey and Levinas on Pluralism, the Other, and Democracy

   • Jim Garrison

   Pages 99-126

9. Reconstruction of Philosophy and Inquiry into Human Affairs —Deweyan Pragmatism in Dialogue with the Postmodern Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman

   • Stefan Neubert, Kersten Reich

   Pages 127-163

10. Diverse Communities —Dewey’s Theory of Democracy as a Challenge for Foucault, Bourdieu, and Rorty

    • Kersten Reich

    Pages 165-194

11. Concluding Conversation: The Future of Democratic Diversity

    • James Campbell, Michael Eldridge, Jim Garrison, William J. Gavin, Judith M. Green, Larry A. Hickman et al.

    Pages 195-227

12. Back Matter

    Pages 229-243

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Diversity is an unavoidable aspect of twenty-first century living. The authors in this volume engage in cross-difference conversations with other thinkers from earlier periods and other philosophical traditions in order to reconstruct pragmatism and cosmopolitanism in ways that are more attuned to our lived experience of diversity.

• democracy
• John Dewey
• Michel Foucault
• Pierre Bourdieu
• pragmatism

• Fordham University, USA

  Judith M. Green

• University of Cologne, Germany

  Stefan Neubert, Kersten Reich

STEFAN NEUBERT Director of the Office for International Relations at the Universität zu Köln, Germany.
KERSTEN REICH University Professor at the Universität zu Köln, Germany.
JUDITH M. GREEN Associate professor of Philosophy and co-director of Women's Studies at Fordham University, USA.

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