As well as identifying sources for Dewey’s primary texts and listing works referred here, this bibliography also contains some books, articles and chapters which can be studied to supplement the current article.

Works by Dewey

• The Early Works, 1882–1898, 5 volumes, ed. by JoAnn Boydston, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969–1975 (abbreviated here EW, followed by volume number). (Scholar)
• The Middle Works, 1899–1924, 15 volumes, ed. by JoAnn Boydston, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1976–1983 (abbreviated here MW, followed by volume number). (Scholar)
• The Later Works, 17 volumes, ed. by JoAnn Boydston, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981–1990 (abbreviated here as LW, followed by volume number).
• Debra Morris and Ian Shapiro (eds.), John Dewey: The Political Writings, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993.
• Larry Hickman and Thomas Alexander (eds.), The Essential Dewey (two volumes), Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Secondary Literature

• Anderson, Elizabeth, 2006, “The Epistemology of Democracy”, Episteme, 3: 8–22. (Scholar)
• Bernstein, Richard J., 1971, Praxis and Action, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, The Pragmatic Turn, Cambridge: Polity Press. (Scholar)
• Bohman, James, 1999, “Democracy as Inquiry, Inquiry as Democratic: Pragmatism, Social Science and the Democratic Division of Labor”, American Journal of Political Science, 43: 590–607. (Scholar)
• Bourne, Randolph, 1977, The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911–1918, Olaf Hansen (ed.), New York: Urizen. (Scholar)
• Caspary, William R., 2000, Dewey on Democracy, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Cochran, Molly, 2010, The Cambridge Companion to Dewey, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Crick, Bernard, 1959, The American Science of Politics, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
• Commager, Henry Steele, 1950, The American Mind, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
• Damico, Alfonso, 1978, Individuality and Community: The Social and Political Thought of John Dewey, Gainesville: University Presses of Florida. (Scholar)
• Dieleman, Susan, David Rondel, and Christopher Voparil (eds.), 2017, Pragmatism and Justice, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Diggins, John P., 1994, The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Farr, James, 1999, “John Dewey and American Political Science”, American Journal of Political Science, 43: 520–541. (Scholar)
• Fesmire, Steven, 2003, John Dewey and Moral Imagination, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2015, Dewey, Abingdon: Routledge. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2019, The Oxford Handbook of Dewey, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Festenstein, Matthew, 1997, Pragmatism and Political Theory: From Dewey to Rorty, Chicago: Chicago University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, “Inquiry as Critique: On the Legacy of Deweyan Pragmatism for Political Theory”, Political Studies, 49: 730–48. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, “John Dewey: Inquiry, Ethics and Democracy”, in Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 87–109. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017, “Ideal and Actual in Dewey’s Political Thought”, in Dieleman, Rondel, and Voparil (eds.) 2017, pp. 97–114. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “Does Dewey Have an ‘Epistemic Argument’ for Democracy?”, Contemporary Pragmatism, 16: 217–41. (Scholar)
• Festl, Michael G. (ed.), 2020, Pragmatism and Social Philosophy: Exploring a Stream of Ideas from America to Europe, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Forstenzer, Joshua, 2019, Deweyan Experimentalism and the Problem of Method in Political Philosophy, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Frega, Roberto, 2019, Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Fott, David, 1998, John Dewey: America’s Philosopher of Democracy, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. (Scholar)
• Hartz, Louis, 1955, The Liberal Tradition in America, New York: Harcourt, Brace and World (Scholar)
• Hayek, F. A., 1960, The Constitution of Liberty. Chicago: Chicago University Press (Scholar)
• Hickman, Larry (ed.), 1998, John Dewey: Interpretations for a Postmodern Generation, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• Honneth, Axel, 1998, “Democracy as Reflexive Cooperation: John Dewey and the Theory of Democracy Today”, Political Theory, 26: 763–83. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life, trans. by Joseph Ganahl, Cambridge: Polity Press (Scholar)
• Horkheimer, Max, 1974, The Eclipse of Reason, New York: Seabury. (Scholar)
• Jackson, Jeff, 2018, Equality Beyond Debate: John Dewey’s Pragmatic Idea of Democracy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Jaeggi, Rahel, 2018, Critique of Forms of Life, trans. by Ciarin Cronin, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• James, William, 1890 [1981], Principles of Psychology, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Kadlec, Alison, 2007, Dewey’s Radical Pragmatism, Lanham: Lexington. (Scholar)
• Kaufman-Osborn, Timothy V., 1991, Politics/Sense/Experience, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Kitcher, Philip, 2020, “John Dewey Goes to Frankfurt: Pragmatism, Critical Theory, and the Invisibility of Moral/Social Problems”, in Julia Christ, Kristina Lepold, Daniel Loick, and Titus Stahl (eds.), Debating Critical Theory: Engagements with Axel Honneth, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield International. (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, Moral Progress, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Kloppenberg, James T., 1986, Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870–1920, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1998, The Virtues of Liberalism, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Knight, Jack, and Johnson, James, 2011, The Priority of Democracy: The Political Consequences of Pragmatism, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Lippmann, Walter, 1922, Public Opinion, New York: Free Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1925, The Phantom Public, New York: MacMillan. (Scholar)
• Livingston, Alexander, 2017, “Between Means and Ends: Reconstructing Coercion in Dewey’s Democratic Theory”, American Political Science Review, 111: 522–34. (Scholar)
• MacGilvray, Eric, 2004, Reconstructing Public Reason, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Marcuse, Herbert, 2011, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Emancipation (Collected Papers, Volume 5), Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce (eds.), Abingdon: Routledge (Scholar)
• Maine, Henry, 1885, Popular Government, London: John Murray. (Scholar)
• Medearis, John, 2015, Why Democracy is Oppositional, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Mill, John Stuart, 1843, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, London: John W. Parker. (Scholar)
• Misak, Cheryl, 2000, Truth, Politics, Morality: A Pragmatist Account of Deliberation, London and New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, The American Pragmatists, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “Dewey on the Authority and Legitimacy of the Law”, in Steven Fesmire (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Dewey, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 195–208. (Scholar)
• Mumford, Lewis, 1926, The Golden Day, New York: Horace Liveright, Inc. (Scholar)
• Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1960. Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. (Scholar)
• Pappas, Gregory Fernando, 2008, John Dewey’s Ethics: Democracy as Experience, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “The Starting Point of Dewey’s Ethics and Sociopolitical Philosophy”, in Steven Fesmire (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Dewey, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 235–253. (Scholar)
• Putnam, Hilary, 1992, “A Reconsideration of Deweyan Democracy”, in Renewing Philosophy, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 180–202. (Scholar)
• Putnam, Hilary, and Putnam, Ruth Anna, 2017, Pragmatism as a Way of Life: The Lasting Legacy of William James and John Dewey, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Raber, Michael I., 2020, Knowing Democracy: A Pragmatist Account of the Epistemic Dimension in Democratic Politics, Cham: Springer. (Scholar)
• Renault, Emmanuel, 2017, “Dewey’s Critical Conception of Work”, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 31(2): 286–98. (Scholar)
• Rockefeller, Steven C., 1991, John Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Rogers, Melvin, 2008, The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Rondel, David, 2018, Pragmatist Egalitarianism, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Ryan, Alan, 1995, John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism, New York: W. W. Norton and Co. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, “Staunchly Modern, Non-Bourgeois Liberalism”, in The Making of Modern Liberalism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 456–72. (Scholar)
• Savage, Daniel M., 2002, John Dewey’s Liberalism: Individuality, Community, and Self-Development, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. (Scholar)
• Shook, John, 2014, John Dewey’s Social Philosophy: Democracy as Educationd,. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Talisse, Robert, 2011, “A Farewell to Deweyan Democracy”, Political Studies, 59: 509–26. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, “Pragmatist Political Philosophy”, Philosophy Compass, 9(2): 123–30. (Scholar)
• Tiles, J. E., 1992, John Dewey: Critical Assessments, 4 vols, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Welchman, Jennifer, 1995, Dewey’s Ethical Thought, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Westbrook, Robert B., 1991, John Dewey and American Democracy, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Hope, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• White, Morton, 1957, Social Thought in America: The Revolt Against Formalism, Boston: Beacon Press. (Scholar)
• Wolin, Sheldon, 2004, Politics and Vision, revised edition, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Zamora, Justo Serrano, 2021, Democratization and Struggles Against Injustice: A Pragmatist Approach to the Epistemic Practices of Social Movements, London: Rowman and Littlefield International. (Scholar)