TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PROLOGUE -- ON HUMAN DIGNITY -- ASPECTS OF THE CRISIS OF THE WEST -- PART I -- SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY AND DISASTER PREPARATION -- LIBERTARIANISM -- DEMOCRACY, LIBERALISM AND FREEDOM -- WILLIAM JAMES AND THE HAYMARKET AFFAIR -- PRAGMATISM AND POLITICAL PRACTICE -- THE VALUES AND PRACTICES OF DEMOCRACY IN DEWEYAN PRAGMATISM -- THE RIGHT TO PERMANENT RESIDENCY AS A HUMAN RIGHT -- PRAGMATIC ANARCHY IN A. N.WHITEHEAD -- PART II -- RATIONALIST GROUNDS FOR PRAGMATIST DEMOCRACY -- HUMANITY AND MORAL DUTY -- THE RORTYAN CONCEPT OF JUSTICE AS A 'LARGER LOYALTY' -- RORTY ON DEMOCRACY AND JUSTIFICATION -- CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY UNDER THE TYRANNY OF A DEMOCRACY OF THE TRUTH -- PRAGMATISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- TEACHER, DEMOCRATIC VALUES AND METHODS (DEWEY AND HIS PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION) -- A PRAGMATIC DEFENSE OF JUSTICE -- PART III -- COMMUNITY OF ART -- COMMENTS AND QUERIES.