The Undiscovered Dewey : : Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy /

The Undiscovered Dewey : : Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy / / Melvin Rogers.

The Undiscovered Dewey explores the profound influence of evolution and its corresponding ideas of contingency and uncertainty on John Dewey's philosophy of action, particularly its argument that inquiry proceeds from the uncertainty of human activity. Dewey separated the meaningfulness of inqu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Rogers, Melvin,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. From Certainty to Contingency
  • 1. Protestant Self-Assertion and Spiritual Sickness
  • 2.Agency and Inquiry After Darwin
  • Part II. Religion, the Moral Life, and Democracy
  • 3. Faith and Democratic Piety
  • 4. Within the Space of Moral Reflection
  • 5. Constraining Elites and Managing Power
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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