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Democracy and Leadership
On Pragmatism and Virtue
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2013
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Democracy and Leadership: On Pragmatism and Virtue presents a theory of leadership drawing on insights from Plato’s Republic, while abandoning his authoritarianism in favor of John Dewey’s democratic thought. The book continues the democratic turn for the study of leadership beyond the incorporation of democratic values into old-fashioned views about leading. The completed democratic turn leaves behind the traditional focus on a class of special people. Instead, leadership is understood as a process of judicious yet courageous guidance, infused with democratic values and open to all people.
The book proceeds in three parts, beginning with definitions and an understanding of the nature of leadership in general and of democratic leadership in particular. Then, Part II examines four challenges for a democratic theory of leadership. Finally, in Part III, the theory of democratic leadership is put to the test of addressing problems of poverty, educational frustration, and racial divides, particularly aggravated in Mississippi.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-5122-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5124-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
313
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Preface No access
1 Leadership, Old and New No access
2 Lessons from Plato No access
3 Dewey on Democratic Leadership No access
4 Democratic Political Leadership No access
5 Wisdom in Pragmatic Humanism No access
6 How Is Leadership Learned? No access
7 Democratic Leadership, East and West No access
8 Ethics and Justice for Democratic Leadership No access
9 Democracy and Leadership in Mississippi No access
