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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