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Virtue and Irony in American Democracy - Revisiting Dewey and Niebuhr (Paperback)
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Virtue and Irony in American Democracy - Revisiting Dewey and Niebuhr (Paperback)
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What virtues are necessary for democracy to succeed? This book
turns to John Dewey and Reinhold Niebuhr, two of America's most
influential theorists of democracy, to answer this question. Dewey
and Niebuhr both implied-although for very different reasons-that
humility and mutuality are important virtues for the success of
people rule. Not only do these virtues allow people to participate
well in their own governance, they also equip us to meet challenges
to democracy generated by free-market economic policy and
practices. Ironically, though, Dewey and Niebuhr quarreled with
each other for twenty years and missed the opportunity to achieve
political consensus. In their discourse with each other they failed
to become "one out of many," a task that is distilled in the
democratic rallying cry "e pluribus unum." This failure itself
reflects a deficiency in democratic virtue. Thus, exploring the
Dewey/Niebuhr debate with attention to their discursive failures
reveals the importance of a third virtue: democratic tolerance. If
democracy is to succeed, we must cultivate a deeper hospitality
toward difference than Dewey and Niebuhr were able to extend to
each other.
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