Spotlight: Pragmatism in contemporary political theory

This article surveys recent work in pragmatism and political theory. I n doing so, it shows both how recent work on pragmatism has secured the view that at its core is a set of arguments about the character of democracy - although the character of those arguments is open to debate and reimagination - and how pragmatist arguments have been reinterpreted and deployed to address contemporary concerns and approaches. This charts a terrain of live disagreements rather than settled opinion.