Pragmatist Democracy: Evolutionary Learning as Public Philosophy

by Christopher K. Ansell

Book Overview

Barack Obama is often lauded as a 'pragmatist, ' yet when most people employ the term, they mean it in the vaguest sense: that he's practical and willing to compromise to get things done. However, the public philosophy of pragmatism, which has been the subject of a rich revival in the past couple of decades, is far more than this. First developed in the late nineteenth century, pragmatism is primarily a way of thinking--an anti-dualist philosophy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199772444
• ISBN13: 9780199772445
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"