John Dewey

Written in a manner accessible to nonspecialists, this book provides an introduction to all areas central to John Dewey's philosophy: aesthetics, social and political philosophy, education, the philosophy of religion, and theory of knowledge. Boisvert situates Dewey as a thinker who could appreciate the advance of science while remaining an "empirical naturalist" committed to the revelatory powers of lived experience.

List of Illustrations

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

1

(1)

The ``Naissance'' and ``Renaissance'' of American Philosophy

1

(3)

Dewey's Reconstruction of the Tradition

4

(9)

The Life-World

13

(16)

Lived Experience

13

(5)

The Fallacy of Intellectualism

18

(2)

The Primacy of Interaction

20

(2)

Temporality and Possibility

22

(3)

Responsibility

25

(2)

Evaluating Philosophy

27

(2)

Thinking

29

(20)

Against Epistemology

29

(3)

Copernican Revolutions

32

(3)

Spectators or Inquirers?

35

(4)

The Traits of Inquiry

39

(10)

Democracy

49

(24)

Winthrop, Locke, and Dewey

49

(2)

Conjoint, Communicated Experience

51

(7)

Freedom as Growth

58

(7)

Equality as Individuality

65

(8)

The Public

73

(22)

Mass or Public?

73

(6)

Problems of the Public

79

(3)

Conditions for Reviving the Public

82

(11)

An Effective Public

93

(2)

Educating

95

(22)

A Simple Credo

95

(3)

Beyond Modern Man

98

(2)

Occupations

100

(4)

Education is an End in Itself

104

(1)

Education and Democracy

105

(5)

Moral Education

110

(7)

Making

117

(22)

Art versus arts

117

(5)

Experience

122

(4)

Imagination, Communication, and Expression

126

(9)

Distraction versus Participation

135

(4)

Devotion

139

(18)

Religious versus Religion

139

(4)

The ``Load'' Carried by Traditional Religions

143

(2)

Faith

145

(3)

God

148

(5)

Cooperation

153

(4)

Conclusion

157

(6)

Postmodern or Polytemporal?

157

(1)

Dewey's Relevance

158

(5)

Appendix A: Biographical Data

163

(2)

Appendix B: Dewey in Cyberspace

165

(2)

Notes

167

(10)

Bibliography

177

(8)

Index

185

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