Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword xiii
5. one. in search of light in democracy and education 1
6. two. dewey between hegel and darwin 17
7. three. emerson’s voice 36
8. five. dewey’s emersonian view of ends 69
9. six. growth and the social reconstruction of criteria 81
10. seven. the gleam of light 99
11. eight. the gleam of light lost 120
12. nine. the rekindling of the gleam of light 139
13. Notes 163
14. Bibliography 195
15. Index 205