This volume examines the roots of pragmatist imagination and
traces the influence of American pragmatism in diverse areas of
politics, law, sociology, political science, and transitional
studies.
The work explores the interfaces between the Progressive
movement in politics and American pragmatism. Shalin shows how
early 20th century progressivism influenced pragmatism's
philosophical agenda and how pragmatists helped articulate a theory
of progressive reform. The work addresses pragmatism and
interactionist sociology and illuminates the cross-fertilization
between these two fields of studies. Special emphasis is placed on
the interactionists' search for a logic of inquiry sensitive to the
objective indeterminacy of the situation. The challenge that
contemporary interactionist studies face is to illuminate the
issues of power and inequality central to the political commitments
of pragmatist philosophers.
Shalin explores the vital link between democracy, civility, and
affect. His central thesis is that democracy is an embodied process
that binds affectively as well as rhetorically and that flourishes
in places where civic discourse is an end in itself, a source of
vitality and social creativity sustaining a democratic community.
The author shows why civic discourse is hobbled by the civic body
that has been misshapen by past abuses. Drawing on the studies of
the civilizing process, Shalin speculates about the emotion,
demeanor, and body language of democracy and explores from this
angle the prospects for democratic transformation in countries
struggling to shake their totalitarian past.
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