John Dewey (1859-1952), hailed during his lifetime as "America's Philosopher," is now recognized as one of the seminal thinkers of the twentieth century. His critical work ranged more broadly than that of either of his contemporaries, Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and he anticipated by several decades some of their most trenchant insights. Dewey's ground breaking contributions to philosophy, psychology, and educational theory continue to animate research on the cutting edges of those fields.
The twelve original interpretive essays included here locate Dewey's major works within their historical context and present a timely reevaluation of each of the major areas of his broad philosophical reach. They explore his contributions to logic, ethics, social and political philosophy, the philosophies of religion and art, metaphysics, and the philosophy of the human sciences. They also locate Dewey's work as it relates to the dominant strands of modern philosophy, as it participates in the major debates of continental philosophy from phenomenology to post-structuralism, and as an early contribution to feminist thought.
Contributors are Thomas M. Alexander, Raymond D. Boisvert, James Campbell, James W. Garrison, Larry A. Hickman, Thelma Z. Lavine, Joseph Margolis, Peter T. Manicas, Gregory F. Pappas, Steven C. Rockefeller, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, and John J. Stuhr.
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Larry A. Hickman is Director of the Center for Dewey Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is the author of Modern Theories of Higher Level Predicates: Second Intentions in the Neuzeit and John Dewey's Pragmatic Technology, and editor of Technology as a Human Affair.
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This review is from: Reading Dewey: Interpretations for a Postmodern Generation (Paperback)
Any library with John Dewey on the stacks should consider this contemporary introspection into this Philosopher, Educator and aesthetition of incredible prolifity. A post-modern generation is precisely the audience addressed here, and would be frustrated by earlier works seeking to offer guiding light to the unique creative mind of John Dewey, who is no easy read. Though this collection is highly academic, I doubt anyone would go there without such an inclination to begin with.
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Experience and Nature appeared in 1925 and was immediately recognized as the most synoptic, systematic statement of Dewey's philosophy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Richard Rorty, William James, World War, University of Chicago Press, George Herbert Mead, Indiana University Press, Jane Addams, Peirce Society, Social Pragmatists, Southern Illinois University Press, Transactions of the Charles, Columbia University, Consequences of Pragmatism, Harvard University Press, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Northwestern University Press, Oxford University Press, The Horizons of Feeling, University of Michigan, Alan Ryan, Beacon Press, Cornell University Press, Enlightenment America, Open Court New!
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Experience and Nature appeared in 1925 and was immediately recognized as the most synoptic, systematic statement of Dewey's philosophy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
differential standpoint, renascent liberalism, morally problematic situation, consummatory experience, empirical naturalism, generic propositions, generic traits, indeterminate situation, environing conditions, warranted assertibility, pragmatist philosophy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Richard Rorty, William James, World War, University of Chicago Press, George Herbert Mead, Indiana University Press, Jane Addams, Peirce Society, Social Pragmatists, Southern Illinois University Press, Transactions of the Charles, Columbia University, Consequences of Pragmatism, Harvard University Press, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Northwestern University Press, Oxford University Press, The Horizons of Feeling, University of Michigan, Alan Ryan, Beacon Press, Cornell University Press, Enlightenment America, Open Court New!
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- Art as Experience by John Dewey on 15 pages
- A Common Faith (The Terry Lectures Series) by John Dewey on 10 pages
- Logic: The Theory of Inquiry by John Dewey on 10 pages
- Being and Time by Martin Heidegger on 7 pages
- Democracy And Education by John Dewey on 6 pages
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- Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality (Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy) by John R. Shook in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Making Morality: Pragmatist Reconstruction in Ethical Theory (The Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy) by Todd Lekan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Dewey on Democracy by William R. Caspary in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- John Dewey and Moral Imagination: Pragmatism in Ethics by Steven Fesmire in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Deconstruction and Reconstruction: The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Vol. 2 (Value Inquiry Book Series 156) by John Ryder on page 18, and page 30
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