The Essential Dewey, Volume 1: Pragmatism, Education, Democracy

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Indiana University Press, Aug 22, 1998 - Education - 448 pages

In addition to being one of the greatest technical philosophers of the twentieth century, John Dewey (1859-1952) was an educational innovator, a Progressive Era reformer, and one of America's last great public intellectuals. Dewey's insights into the problems of public education, immigration, the prospects for democratic government, and the relation of religious faith to science are as fresh today as when they were first published. His penetrating treatments of the nature and function of philosophy, the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of life, and the role of inquiry in human experience are of increasing relevance at the turn of the 21st century.

Based on the award-winning 37-volume critical edition of Dewey's work, The Essential Dewey presents for the first time a collection of Dewey's writings that is both manageable and comprehensive. The volume includes essays and book chapters that exhibit Dewey's intellectual development over time; the selection represents his mature thinking on every major issue to which he turned his attention. Eleven part divisions cover: Dewey in Context; Reconstructing Philosophy; Evolutionary Naturalism; Pragmatic Metaphysics; Habit, Conduct, and Language; Meaning, Truth, and Inquiry; Valuation and Ethics; The Aims of Education; The Individual, the Community, and Democracy; Pragmatism and Culture: Science and Technology, Art and Religion; and Interpretations and Critiques. Taken as a whole, this collection provides unique access to Dewey's understanding of the problems and prospects of human existence and of the philosophical enterprise.

 

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Contents

The Development of American Pragmatism 1925
3
1930
14
What I Believe 1930
22
Pragmatic America 1922
29
The Pragmatic Acquiescence 1927
33
RECONSTRUCTING PHILOSOPHY
37
The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy 1909
39
The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy 1917
46
The Child and the Curriculum 1902
236
FROM MORAL PRINCIPLES IN EDUCATION 1909
246
FROM DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION 1916
250
FROM DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION 1916
257
Nationalizing 1916
265
Education as Engineering 1922
270
FROM HOW WE THINK 1933
274
THE INDIVIDUAL THE COMMUNITY AND DEMOCRACY
279

Philosophy and Democracy 1919
71
Philosophy and Civilization 1927
79
FROM EXPERIENCE AND NATURE 1925
84
FROM THE QUEST FOR CERTAINTY 1929
102
EVOLUTIONARY NATURALISM
113
The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism 1905
115
A Disclaimer 1907
121
Does Reality Possess Practical Character? 1908
124
FROM EXPERIENCE AND NATURE 1925
134
Nature in Experience 1940
154
AntiNaturalism in Extremis 1943
162
PRAGMATIC METAPHYSICS
173
The SubjectMatter of Metaphysical Inquiry 1915
175
Events and the Future 1926
181
Appearing and Appearance 1927
185
Qualitative Thought 1930
195
Context and Thought 1931
206
Time and Individuality 1940
217
THE AIMS OF EDUCATION
227
My Pedagogic Creed 1897
229
FROM THE PUBLIC AND ITS PROBLEMS 1927
281
FROM THE PUBLIC AND ITS PROBLEMS 1927
293
The Inclusive Philosophic Idea 1928
308
A Critique of American Civilization 1928
316
FROM LIBERALISM AND SOCIAL ACTION 1935
323
Democracy Is Radical 1937
337
Creative DemocracyThe Task Before Us 1939
340
PRAGMATISM AND CULTURE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ART AND RELIGION
345
Fundamentals 1924
347
Science Belief and the Public 1924
351
Logical Method and Law 1924
355
FROM PHILOSOPHY AND CIVILIZATION 1931
363
Social Science and Social Control 1931
369
By Nature and by Art 1944
372
FROM LOGIC THE THEORY OF INQUIRY 1938
380
FROM ART AS EXPERIENCE 1934
391
FROM A COMMON FAITH 1934
401
INDEX
411
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