Abstract

This article engages the recent work of Robert Talisse, A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy, particularly his concern that Deweyan democracy is unable to accommodate pluralism. I contend that Talisse’s claim is based on a mischaracterization of John Dewey’s understanding of democracy—a misreading, I maintain, that largely results from the connection Talisse draws between Dewey and the early work of Michael Sandel. The article lays out more stridently the way in which democracy and pluralism are constitutively connected in Dewey’s writings.

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