The authors place communication at the heart of the project for achieving what American pragmatist John Dewey called "creative democracy," a richer and more diverse form of democracy than what we now experience as "marketplace democracy." They describe the "communicative imagination" as an extension and application of the critical imagination and the citizenship ethos that follows from it. They situate their ideas on communication and democracy within a neo-pragmatic tradition influenced by Friedrich Nietsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Rorty, and (of course) John Dewey. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)