Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy

• Main Author: Frega, Roberto (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Political philosophy.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Political Philosophy.; Social Philosophy.

'In times of defiant populism, a refreshing, thought-provoking invitation to reorient attention from peoples to publics comes from Frega's lucid reconstruction of the elective affinity of democracy and pragmatism. Frega's wide view of democracy is an authentic must-read for democrats...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• Part I
• Theoretical Framework
• 2. Enlarging Democracy
• 3. The normativity of democracy
• Part II
• The Historical Background
• 4. The pragmatist social account of democracy
• 5. The politics of democratic collective action
• Part III: Political Pragmatism
• 6. From Civic Virtues to Democratic Habits
• 7. Democratic patterns of social interaction
• 8. A democratic experimentalist theory of institutions
• 9. Democratic publics
• 10. Pragmatism and democracy in a global world
• Conclusion: A research agenda for political pragmatism. .