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America's Public Philosopher
Essays on Social Justice, Economics, Education, and the Future of Democracy
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John Dewey
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Edited by:
Eric Thomas Weber
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With contributions by:
Eric Thomas Weber
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English
Published/Copyright:
2021
About this book
John 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.
Author / Editor information
Eric Thomas Weber is associate professor of educational policy studies and evaluation at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Uniting Mississippi: Democracy and Leadership in the South (2015) and Democracy and Leadership: On Pragmatism and Virtue (2013), among other books. He is executive director of the Society of Philosophers in America and cohost of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast.
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John Robert Shook, coeditor of Dewey's Enduring Impact: Essays on America's Philosopher:
This 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.
This 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.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Democratic Faith and Education in Unstable Times
1 - Part I Democracy and the United States
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1. Democracy Is Radical
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2. Address to National Negro Conference
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3. A Symposium on Woman’s Suffrage
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4. The Challenge of Democracy to Education
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5. America in the World
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6. Our National Dilemma
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7. Pragmatic America
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8. The Basic Values and Loyalties of Democracy
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9. Creative Democracy— The Task Before Us
59 - Part II Politics and Power
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10. Politics and Culture
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11. Intelligence and Power
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12. Force, Violence, and the Law
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13. Why I Am Not a Communist
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14. Dualism and the Split Atom
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15. Is There Hope for Politics?
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16. A Liberal Speaks Out for Liberalism
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17. Future of Liberalism
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18. What Is a School For?
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19. Dewey Outlines Utopian Schools
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20. Industrial Education— A Wrong Kind
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21. Why Have Progressive Schools?
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22. Can Education Share in Social Reconstruction?
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23. Nationalizing Education
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24. The Teacher and the Public
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25. Democracy and Education in the World of Today
161 - Part IV Social Ethics and Economic Justice
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26. Capitalistic or Public Socialism?
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27. Does Human Nature Change?
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28. The Ethics of Animal Experimentation
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29. Ethics and International Relations
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30. Dewey Describes Child’s New World
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31. The Collapse of a Romance
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32. The Economic Situation: A Challenge to Education
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33. The Jobless— A Job for All of Us
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34. The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy
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35. Science, Belief and the Public
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36. Social Science and Social Control
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37. Education and Birth Control
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38. The Supreme Intellectual Obligation
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39. The Revolt against Science
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40. The Case of the Professor and the Public Interest
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41. Social Absolutism
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42. Some Factors in Mutual National Understanding
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43. The Basis for Hope
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44. Art as Our Heritage
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45. The Value of Historical Christianity
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46. What Humanism Means to Me
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References
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Index
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February 8, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9780231552882
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Keywords for this book
Pragmatism; American Pragmatism; Political Philosophy; Social Justice; Education; Democracy
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
