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An edition of Dewey (2015)

Dewey

John Dewey (1859 - 1952) was the dominant voice in American philosophy through the World Wars, the Great Depression, and the nascent years of the Cold War. With a professional career spanning three generations and a profile that no public intellectual has operated on in the U.S. since, Dewey's biographer Robert Westbrook accurately describes him as "the most important philosopher in modern American history." In this superb and engaging introduction, Steven Fesmire begins with a chapter on Dewey's life and works, before discussing and assessing Dewey's key ideas across the major disciplines in philosophy; including metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, educational philosophy, social-political philosophy, and religious philosophy. This is an invaluable introduction and guide to this deeply influential philosopher and his legacy, and essential reading for anyone coming to Dewey's work for the first time. - Publisher.

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2015, Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
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Table of Contents

Chronology
Introduction
1. Life and works.
Are you right with Jesus, John?
From absolutism to experimentalism
Educator, educated
The philosopher of the progressive era
The philosopher of democracy at home and abroad
Retirement?
Reading Dewey and the "lost" book
Summary
Notes
Further reading
2. Metaphysics reconstructed.
Metaphysics in a moving world
The revolt against dualism
Cultural existence in nature as situated
Mapping our milieu
Experience as cultural inhabitation of nature
Hypostatization: the philosophical fallacy
Critique of Dewey's map: the animal plane
Summary
Notes
Further reading
3. Epistemology reconstructed.
Dismantling the epistemology industry
The "Oh" of problems, the "Hmm" of inquiries, and the "Good" of judgments
Deerstalker hats and construction hard hats
The mirror of nature
Some truths about the truth I : pragmatism and experimental method
Some truths about the truth II : Dewey's instrumentalism
The ends-means continuum : why warranted assertibility is not truthiness
Dewey on meaning in the context of analytic philosophy
Summary
Notes
Further reading
4. Ethics reconstructed.
Multidimensional moral experience
Dewey's ethical writings
Facts and values
Moral imagination
The starting point and principles
In praise of theory
The social basis of character
Summary
Notes
Further reading
5. Social-political and educational philosophy reconstructed.
The democratic ideal
The experimental attitude and the democratic ideal
Emergent individualism
Radicalism for grown-ups
Liberalism, old and new
Democracy begins in conversation
Democratic education vs. industrial education
Progressive pedagogy in moral education
Summary
Notes
Further reading
6. Aesthetics and technology reconstructed.
Consummations
Experience in its integrity
The work of art and generative form
The aesthetics of moral life
Qualitative thought
Art, science, and instrumentalism
Does technology corrupt?
Summary
Notes
Further reading
7. Religious philosophy reconstructed.
Doctrinal religion vs. the religious attitude
Democracy as community and communion
Summary
Notes
Further reading
8. Influence and legacy.
Environmental pragmatism
Dewey in contemporary social-political philosophy and ethics
Dewey in dialogue
Conclusion
Summary
Notes
Further reading

Edition Notes

Published in
London, New York
Series
Routledge philosophers

Classifications

Library of Congress
BJ, B945.D44F43 2014, B945.D44 F43 2015, B945.D44 F43 2014

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxii, 278 p.
Dimensions
22 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22542767M
ISBN 10
0415782759
ISBN 13
9780415782753
LCCN
2014023953
OCLC/WorldCat
896851404, 738351601
Library Thing
484958
Goodreads
328708

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