Diversity is an unavoidable aspect of twenty-first century living. The authors in this volume engage in cross-difference conversations with other thinkers from earlier periods and other philosophical traditions in order to reconstruct pragmatism and cosmopolitanism in ways that are more attuned to our lived experience of diversity.

The Roots of Diversity in Pragmatist Thought; J.Campbell   The Context of Diversity vs. The Problem of Diversity; W.Gavin   Reading Dewey and Mouffe on Democratic Norms; L.Hickman  Cultivating Pragmatist Cosmopolitanism: The Diverse Democratic Community after Huntington and Benhabib; J.Green Green Democracy - Practice as Needed; M.Eldridge   Dewey and Levinas on Pluralism, the Other, and Democracy; J.Garrison  Reconstruction of Philosophy and Inquiry into Human Affairs - Deweyan Pragmatism in Dialogue with the Postmodern Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman; S.Neubert  & K.Reich Diverse Communities - Dewey's Theory of Democracy as a Challenge for Foucault, Bourdieu, and Rorty; K.Reich  Conclusion: The Future of Democratic Diversity