John Dewey

John Narayan is Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK

'This carefully crafted response to Dewey's critics and supporters alike presents a radical Dewey appropriate for our own time of massive economic disparity and emerging global publics. The Dewey presented here takes the measure of relations between bourgeois democracy and global democracies, between liberal capitalism and social democracy. Narayan's Dewey is edgy and exciting.' Larry A. Hickman, Director of the Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA'John Narayan's incisive, timely work challenges us to rethink the meaning and possibility of democracy in today's global context. Using John Dewey's ideas about democratic publics, the book probes the potentialities and limits of democracy in a globalized world rife with sharp economic inequalities, intense racial, ethnic, and religious splits, and strong anti-democratic currents. His reconstructive interpretation outlines an alternative to the dominant neoliberal regime.' Robert J. Antonio, Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas, USA‘This is an excellent and novel treatment of Dewey’s political thought.’P. R. Babbitt, Southern Arkansas University, Choice 01/08/2016

• 1 Introducing the enigma of global democracy2 Creative democracy3 The global democrat4 Twenty-first century creative democracy5 Conclusion: Democracy and global justiceIndex