Arguing that John Dewey should be read not as a 'local' American thinker but as a philosopher of globalisation, this book shows how he sets out an evolutionary form of global and national democracy, one that has not been fully appreciated even by contemporary scholars of pragmatism.

John Narayan is Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK

1 Introducing the enigma of global democracy
2 Creative democracy
3 The global democrat
4 Twenty-first century creative democracy
5 Conclusion: Democracy and global justice
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