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Book SynopsisJohn Dewey was America’s greatest public philosopher. This book gathers the clearest and most powerful of Dewey’s public writings and shows how they continue to speak to the challenges we face today.
Trade ReviewIn these troubled times, Eric Thomas Weber has compiled a magnificent set of essays by John Dewey, the preeminent American public philosopher of the twentieth century. With the help of Weber’s commentaries, all Americans will be able to see how Dewey still speaks to us today, with wisdom and urgency. -- Elizabeth Anderson, author of
Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)In this collection Eric Weber presents expertly curated essays by one of America’s great public intellectuals. John Dewey’s insights into the core issues of American life, then as now, are as fresh today as when they were first published. They provide ample evidence of his continuing relevance for our exceptional time. -- Larry A. Hickman, editor of
The Correspondence of John DeweyJohn Dewey is the American philosopher of democracy. He understood that democracy, making choices together, is an end in itself, and that attempts to short-circuit democratic processes in the name of something else, whether it’s ethnic nationalism or globalization, diminish us as human beings. His wisdom never goes out of style. There is no better (or worse) time to read him again. -- Louis Menand, author of
The Metaphysical ClubThis is an outstanding collection, unique and most timely, that should receive attention from the sphere of public policy and politics. Weber has chosen writings that speak to America and the world today. -- John Robert Shook, coeditor of
Dewey's Enduring Impact: Essays on America's PhilosopherAn illuminating, succinct introduction that amplifies Dewey's interest in society as well as his hopeful idealism and belief in the divine. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Democratic Faith and Education in Unstable Times, by Eric Thomas Weber
Part I: Democracy and the United States1. Democracy Is Radical
2. Address to National Negro Conference
3. A Symposium on Woman’s Suffrage
4. The Challenge of Democracy to Education
5. America in the World
6. Our National Dilemma
7. Pragmatic America
8. The Basic Values and Loyalties of Democracy
9. Creative Democracy—The Task Before Us
Part II: Politics and Power10. Politics and Culture
11. Intelligence and Power
12. Force, Violence, and the Law
13. Why I Am Not a Communist
14. Dualism and the Split Atom
15. Is There Hope for Politics?
16. A Liberal Speaks Out for Liberalism
17. Future of Liberalism
Part III: Education18. What Is a School For?
19. Dewey Outlines Utopian Schools
20. Industrial Education—A Wrong Kind
21. Why Have Progressive Schools?
22. Can Education Share in Social Reconstruction?
23. Nationalizing Education
24. The Teacher and the Public
25. Democracy and Education in the World of Today
Part IV: Social Ethics and Economic Justice26. Capitalistic or Public Socialism?
27. Does Human Nature Change?
28. The Ethics of Animal Experimentation
29. Ethics and International Relations
30. Dewey Describes Child’s New World
31. The Collapse of a Romance
32. The Economic Situation: A Challenge to Education
33. The Jobless—A Job for All of Us
Part V: Science and Society34. The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy
35. Science, Belief and the Public
36. Social Science and Social Control
37. Education and Birth Control
38. The Supreme Intellectual Obligation
39. The Revolt against Science
Part VI: Philosophy and Culture40. The Case of the Professor and the Public Interest
41. Social Absolutism
42. Some Factors in Mutual National Understanding
43. The Basis for Hope
44. Art as Our Heritage
45. The Value of Historical Christianity
46. What Humanism Means to Me
References
Index
