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Pragmatist democracy
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- Book Synopsis
- 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
- About The Author
- Christopher Ansell is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California-Berkeley.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780199772438
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, (29 September 2011)
- Number of Pages
- 280
- Weight
- 522 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 168 x 241 x 33 mm
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