Normative Democratic Theory as a Tool for Practical Reasoning

• In Event: New Frontiers of Normative Political Theory

Brief Overview

This paper develops a pragmatist account of the proper role of normative democratic theory in democratic practice. Drawing on John Dewey, it interprets such theory as balancing a kind of "generalism" with a kind of "particularism."

Author

• Quinlan Bernhard Bowman, Duke Kunshan University