Synopses & Reviews
Arguing that the standard political institutions of formal democracy have become empty and counterproductive in the absence of community and the presence of technology-enhanced concentrations of economic, cultural, and military power, Green (philosophy, Fordham U.) attempts to expand the Deweyan project of pragmatism to offer solutions for "deepening" democracy. She looks at our educational, political, economic, and other social institutions and echoes Dewey that the "cure for the ailments of democracy is more democracy".
Synopsis
Deeply understood, democracy is more than a "formal" institutional framework for which America provides the model, acting as a preferable alternative to the modern totalitarian regimes that have distorted social life around the world. At its core, as John Dewey understood, democracy is a realistic ideal, a desired and desirable future possibility that is yet-to-be. In this period of global crises in differing cultures, a shared environment, and an increasingly globalized political economy, this book provides a clear contemporary articulation of deep democracy that can guide an evolutionary deepening of democratic institutions, of habits of the heart, and of the processes of education and social inquiry that support them.