Deconstruction and Reconstruction

John Ryder is Professor of Philosophy and the Director of International Programs, State University of New York. Recent publications include Interpreting America: Russian and Soviet Studies of the History of American Thought, The Philosophical Writings of Cadwallader Colden (co-edited with Scott Pratt), and The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy (co-edited with Armen Marsoobian).Krystyna Wilkoszewska is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Jagiellonian University, Kraców, Poland. She is the author and editor of several books on aesthetics, including Art as the Rhythm of Life. Reconstruction of John Dewey’s Philosophy of Art, and numerous articles in contemporary pragmatist aesthetics.

• Foreword by Hans JoasPreface by John Ryder and Krystyna WilkoszewskaONE John J. McDERMOTT: Transiency and Amelioration: RevisitedTOWARD DEMOCRACYTWO Gert-Rüdiger WEGMARSHAUS: Cooperation, Education, and Community: Reconstructing John Dewey’s Conception of Democracy as a Way of LifeTHREE Martin KILANOWSKI: Individual and Community: Dewey’s Rejection of Sharp Distinctions in Social and Political PhilosophyFOUR John R. SHOOK: Deliberative Democracy and Moral Pluralism: Dewey vs. Rawls and HabermasFIVE James CAMPBELL: Institutions and Their ReconstructionSIX Mark LOVAS: Modules, Norms, and Justice: Three Organizing Principles and the Need for Social CriticismSEVEN Michael ELDRIDGE: Social Reconstruction and PhilosophyETHICSEIGHT Leszek KOCZANOWICZ: Sources of Solidarity: Is Non-foundational Ethics Irrational?NINE Paul B. THOMPSON: Pragmatism, Practical and Discourse EthicsAESTHETICSTEN Anthony J. GRAYBOSCH: American BeautyELEVEN Leif ÖSTMAN: The Client as Designer: Design in the Mirror of Pragmatist PhilosophyTWELVE Armen T. MARSOOBIAN: Is There a Pragmatist Aesthetics?THIRTEEN Krystyna WILKOSZEWSKA: How to Build a Pragmatist AestheticsSELF, REASON, KNOWLEDGEFOURTEEN Hans-Peter KRÜGER: The Specifications of Human Beings: A Comparison of John Dewey’s and Helmuth Plessner’s ApproachesFIFTEEN Lyubov BUGAEVA: Santayana’s Imaginative Knowledge: Presenting an ObjectSIXTEEN Emil VIŠŇOVSKÝ: Dewey’s Reconstruction of RationalitySEVENTEEN Jane SKINNER: Deconstructors and Reconstructors of the Pragmatist Project: An Educational ViewpointEIGHTEEN Igor HANZEL: Jürgen Habermas’ Construction and Deconstruction of the WorldNINETEEN Vincent COLAPIETRO: Social Practice and Pragmatic Inquiry: Dewey and BourdieuFACING ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHYTWENTY Tadeusz SZUBKA: The Theory of Meaning and Pragmatism: Michael Dummett and John DeweyTWENTY ONE Piotr GUTOWSKI: The Philosophy of John Dewey and the Problem of RealismTWENTY TWO Mateusz OLEKSY: The Battle Against Metaphysics: Deconstruction and Deflation on the Common TrackTWENTY THREE John RYDER: American Philosophy in Its PlaceAbout the Editors and ContributorsIndex