Description: Explores the significance of Dewey's thought on democracy for the contemporary world.
Brief description: Sor-hoon Tan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. She is the coeditor (with K. C. Chong and C. L. Ten) of The Moral Circle and the Self: Chinese and Western Perspectives.
Review Quotes:
"It is high time, the editors suggest, that we stop bundling democracy with Western political systems in the way that Explorer has been automatically bundled with the Windows operating system. There is much valuable material in this book to aid the project of reconstructing democracy as an open-source conception--a conception applicable in many cultural architectures to guide the realization of a better quality community." -- J. E. Tiles, author of Dewey
"This book as a whole exhibits the fresh thinking Dewey called 'experimental intelligence': exploratory not dogmatic, boldly imaginative not clichéd, constructive not nugatory." -- George Allan, author of Higher Education in the Making: Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon