Deep Democracy

Deeply understood democracy is more than a formal institutional framework for which America provides the model acting as a preferable alternative to the modern totalitarian regimes that have distorted social life around the world. At its core as John Dewey understood democracy is a realistic ideal a desired and desirable future possibility that is yet-to-be. In this period of global crises in differing cultures a shared environment and an increasingly globalized political economy this book provides a clear contemporary articulation of <I>deep democracy</I> that can guide an evolutionary deepening of democratic institutions of habits of the heart and of the processes of education and social inquiry that support them.