Add to ORKGPragmatism and Social Hope offers a broad roadmap for “achieving our world” (p. 7) by drawing on and furthering “yearnings for deep democracy” (p. 6). The democracy in question is the Deweyan vision of a comprehensive “quality of social living” (p. 2) rather than a matter of life under procedural institutions alone. It is the democracy that Whitman, James, Dewey, and Baldwin dreamed of and gestured toward: a democracy of the reciprocal construction of more continuously meaningful and fulfilling human life. Both in moving toward such a democracy and in sustaining it, philosophers will serve not as theorists of eternal forms of the good, but rather as “liaison officers” promoting conversations among different disciplines, cultural formations,...