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John Dewey's Experience and Nature has been considered the fullest expression of his mature philosophy since its eagerly awaited publication in 1925. Irwin Edman wrote at that time that "with monumental care, detail and completeness, Professor Dewey has in this volume revealed the metaphysical heart that beats its unvarying alert tempo through all his writings, whatever their explicit themes." In his introduction to this volume, Sidney Hook points out that "Dewey's Experience and Nature is both the most suggestive and most difficult of his writings." The meticulously edited text published here as the first volume in the series The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953 spans that entire period in Dewey's thought by including two important and previously unpublished documents from the book's history: Dewey's unfinished new introduction written between 1947 and 1949, edited by the late Joseph Ratner, and Dewey's unedited final draft of that introduction written the year before his death. In the intervening years Dewey realized the impossibility of making his use of the word 'experience' understood. He wrote in his 1951 draft for a new introduction: "Were I to write (or rewrite) Experience and Nature today I would entitle the book Culture and Nature and the treatment of specific subject-matters would be correspondingly modified. I would abandon the term 'experience' because of my growing realization that the historical obstacles which prevented understanding of my use of 'experience' are, for all practical purposes, insurmountable. I would substitute the term 'culture' because with its meanings as now firmly established it can fully and freely carry my philosophy of experience."
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John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-1953 : 1939-1941/Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany, Vol. 14
September 10, 1991, Southern Illinois University
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John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1935-1937/Essays and Liberalism and Social Action, Vol. 11
September 10, 1991, Southern Illinois University
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0809316773 9780809316779
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John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-1953 : 1885-1953, Vol. 17
December 28, 1990, Southern Illinois University Press
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0809316617 9780809316618
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John Dewey the Later Works, 1925-1953: 1935/Art As Experience, Vol. 10
September 25, 1989, Southern Illinois University, Southern Illinois University Press
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0809312662 9780809312665
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John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939/Experience and Education, Freedom and Culture, Theory of Valuation, and Essays, Vol. 13
February 21, 1988, Southern Illinois University
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0809314258 9780809314256
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John Dewey the Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929/The Quest for Certainty, Vol. 4
October 1, 1988, Southern Illinois University
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0809314932 9780809314935
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John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1939-1941/Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany, Vol. 14
January 29, 1988, Southern Illinois University
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0809314266 9780809314263
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John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933-1934, Vol. 9
October 1, 1986, Southern Illinois University
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0809312654 9780809312658
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John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938, Vol. 12
August 14, 1986, Southern Illinois University Press
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0809312689 9780809312689
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John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1931-1932, Vol. 6
June 3, 1985, Southern Illinois University Press
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0809311992 9780809311996
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John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1932, Vol. 7
June 3, 1985, Southern Illinois University
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080931200X 9780809312009
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John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928, Vol. 3
March 6, 1984, Southern Illinois University
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0809311321 9780809311323
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John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1925-1927, Vol. 2
March 6, 1984, Southern Illinois University Press
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0809311313 9780809311316
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