Pragmatist Democracy

Evolutionary Learning as Public Philosophy

AvChristopher Ansell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. 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 that attempts to overcome the dichotomies between self and object, nature and culture, mind and body, theory and practice, and fact and value. When applied to governance, pragmatists advocate the use of tactics like third party mediation and problem-solving to achieve anti-dualist principles: cosmopolitan localism, analytical holism, progressive conservatism, and

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-09-29
Mått:241 x 168 x 33 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Academic
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780199772438

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Christopher Ansell is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California-Berkeley.

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Pragmatist Democracy's particular innovation lies in bringing its titular philosophical approach to bear on organizational theory. Ansell has done an impressive job, and this work should be indispensable for anyone interested in the concrete political implications of pragmatism... Each chapter of the book is richly detailed, and its wealth of information, distinctions and claims compel repeated reading... Pragmatist Democracy is an impressive achievement, simultaneously showing pragmatists a vision of their values in action and presenting social scientists with a reconstructed conceptual toolkit for understanding political institutions.

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1. Democratic Governance in a Pragmatist Key ; 2. Institutions ; 3. Large-Scale Institutional Change ; 4. Organizations ; 5. Problem-Solving ; 6. Recursiveness ; 7. Power and Responsibility ; 8. Consent ; 9. Collaborative Governance ; 10. Problem-Solving Democracy