At the National University of Singapore, Sor-hoon Tan is Associate Professor of Philosophy, and John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature. Tan is the author of Confucian Democracy: A Deweyan Reconstruction, also published by SUNY Press, and editor of Challenging Citizenship: Group Membership and Cultural Identity in a Global Age. Whalen-Bridge is the author of Political Fiction and the American Self.

Acknowledgments

On Richard Rorty
Bruce Robbins

1. Introduction-Pragmatism's Passport: Dewey, Democracy, and Globalization
Sor-hoon Tan and John Whalen-Bridge

I. Universalizing Democracy Pragmatically

2. The Genesis of Democratic Norms: Some Insights from Classical Pragmatism
Larry A. Hickman

3. Reconstructing 'Culture'-A Deweyan Response to Antidemocratic Culturalism
Sor-hoon Tan

II. Imposing Democracy

4. Globalizing Democracy-A Deweyan Critique of Bush's Second-Term National Security Strategy
Sun Youzhong

5. Can Democratic Inquiry Be Exported? Dewey and the Globalization of Education
James Scott Johnston

6. Jane Addams: Pragmatist-Feminist Democracy in a Global Context
Judy D. Whipps

7. War Without Belief-On Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
Bruce Robbins

III. De-centering Dewey

8. Dewey's Difficult Recovery, Analytic Philosophy's Attempted Turn
John Holbo

9. Descartes, Dewey, and Democracy
Cecilia Wee

10. Nonduality and Aesthetic Experience-Dewey's Theory and Johnson's Practice
John Whalen-Bridge

11. When Dewey's Confucian Admirer Meets His Liberal Critic-Liang Shuming and Eammon Callan on John Dewey's Democracy and Education
Jessica Ching-Sze Wang

12. Tang Junyi and the Very 'Idea' of Confucian Democracy
Roger T. Ames

Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index