Neo-pragmatism, communication, and the culture of creative democracy [Texte imprimé] / Omar Swartz, Katia Campbell, Christina Pestana [préf. par Phillip K. Tompkins]

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Foreword / by Phillip K. Tompkins -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Democracy and diversity. Limitations of a marketplace diversity -- Social justice and the critical imagination. Rejecting the entertainment model of citizenship -- Creative democracy and the importance of the critical imagination -- Communication as epistemic and the communicative imagination. The communicative imagination -- Exploring our theoretical and methodological assumptions. The critical paradigm -- Neo-pragmatism -- Perspectivalism and cosmopolitanism. Perspectivalism : de-centering the "real" -- The contribution of four philosophers to this project. Nietzsche, cultural criticism, and the "good American" -- Emerson and the unattained yet attainable self -- Dewey's democracy as a moral problem -- Rorty's anti-foundationalism -- Alienation and power. Power, alienation, and communication -- Contrasting platonic and critical models of education. Platonic v. critical models of education -- Critical education -- Service learning. Theoretical bases of service learning -- Social justice-oriented service learning -- A social justice-oriented service learning model