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The progressive alternative in an American context


I wrote "The Future of American Progressivism" with Cornel West in an attempt to explore an American version of the worldwide debate about progressive alternatives. The particular proposals are tentative and circumstantial. However, the way of thinking and speaking exemplified in this short book is meant to suggest some of the resources American society and culture bring to the recovery of democratic possibility. We propose to trade in some bad American exceptionalism for some good American experimentalism. The book is available from Beacon Press.

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Contents - Download pdf

Humanization of the Inevitable - Download pdf

Religion of Possibility - Download pdf

The Burden of History - Download pdf

Institutional Experiments - Download pdf

Frustration of American Democracy - Download pdf

Vanguards and Rearguards - Download pdf

The Recent Past - Download pdf

Progressivism Reoriented - Download pdf



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