Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Pragmatism and Social Hope: Deepening Democracy in Global Contexts 1
5. 1. Achieving Our Country, Achieving Our World: Rorty, Baldwin, and Social Hope 29
6. 2. American Dreaming: From Loss and Fear to Vision and Hope 60
7. 3. Hope’s Progress: Remembering Dewey’s Pragmatist Social Epistemology in the Twenty-first Century 100
8. 4. Choosing Our History, Choosing Our Hopes: Truth and Reconciliation Between Our Past and Our Future 127
9. 5. Trying Deeper Democracy: Pragmatist Lessons from the American Experience 158
10. 6. The Continuously Planning City: Imperatives and Examples for Deepening Democracy 194
11. 7. The Hope of Democratic Living: Choosing Active Citizen Participation for Preferable Global Futures 225
12. Notes 251
13. Bibliography 269
14. Index 287