America's Public Philosopher : : Essays on Social Justice, Economics, Education, and the Future of Democracy /

America's Public Philosopher : : Essays on Social Justice, Economics, Education, and the Future of Democracy / / John Dewey; ed. by Eric Thomas Weber.

John Dewey was America’s greatest public philosopher. A prolific and influential writer for both scholarly and general audiences, he stands out for the remarkable breadth of his contributions. Dewey was a founder of a distinctly American philosophical tradition, pragmatism, and he spoke out widely o...

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Dewey, John,
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Weber, Eric Thomas,
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Weber, Eric Thomas,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Democratic Faith and Education in Unstable Times
  • Part I Democracy and the United States
  • 1. 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 Power
  • 10. 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 Education
  • 18. 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 Justice
  • 26. 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 Society
  • 34. 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 Culture
  • 40. 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

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