What should now be predicted before: first
John Dewey will arrive in three or four years in Germany. His pragmatic philosophy of a learning democracy is a great way to draw attention to the internal organization and processes of a modern and active democracy.
second The concept of practice must be rid of his Marxist occupation. "Practice" refers to the meta-process of coordination between all procedures that the actors are saying. So practice is what is being done, of course. But not a given is, if you look closely, really, of course. Especially not in times of change. So where we organize our life processes and we must - of course! - Talking about practice. So, with Dewey.
third Liberal theory suffers from scurvy - that under the domination of a class of dead men, of whom we have records of liberal constitutional and economic systems. Although there are great ideas in there - but the idea of freedom is greater than a rule of law and economic order. Its expression also needs a democratic and civic order - the latter is in my eyes that order, which the other three complementary organize and integrate added. And within these systems are suppressed freedom in a practice, a certain political and human culture. Dewey would be the skeleton of the scurvy-liberalism a much needed shot in the arm.
4th Let's go read Dewey !
