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Book Review


Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth. By Robert B. Westbrook. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. xviii, 246 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-2833-5.)
Robert B. Westbrook is best known for his magisterial study, John Dewey and American Democracy (1991). In that work he surveyed the entirety of Dewey's philosophical corpus while also placing him in historical context. In addition, he attempted to establish the continuing relevance of Deweyan pragmatism and democracy. In this collection of essays, written over a little more than the last decade, a new sensibility emerges, of tragedy and limits. Westbrook is haunted by today's achingly anemic public culture. His project, then, is to separate the wheat from the chaff of pragmatism and to resuscitate, as best as possible, a politics of hope. . . .
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