Mack, Stephen John. The Pragmatic Whitman: Reimagining American Democracy [review]

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition (review)

Legitimacy and American Democracy

the challenges of john dewey,s theory on democracy

democray is the most importantn element in dewey’s thought. in this paper dewey’s theory on democray will be evaluated, furthermor some challenges are ascrbed to it: first, dewey has not presented any philosophical argument about his idea: “democracy is a moral ideal”. second: if it is known by a posteriori method that democracy is the best, this idea can not be generalized to future, so it cou...

The Pragmatic Turn of Democracy in Latin america

The expansion and incorporation of experimentalist forms of government in a number of Latin American democracies does not aim to destabilize representative institutions, nor to substitute them with alternative, participatory or deliberative ones. Rather, this pragmatic change in Latin American democracies attempts to correct some of the alleged failures of representative institutions as well as...