The Essential Dewey, Volume 2 - Ethics, Logic, Psychology
Book description
In addition to being one of the greatest technical philosophers of
the twentieth century, John Dewey (1859-1952) was an educational
innovator, a Progressive Era reformer, and one of America's last great
public intellectuals. Dewey's insights into the problems of public
education, immigration, the prospects for democratic government, and
the relation of religious faith to science are as fresh today as when
they were first published. His penetrating treatments of the nature
and function of philosophy, the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of
life, and the role of inquiry in human experience are of increasing
relevance at the turn of the 21st century.
Based on the award-winning 37-volume critical edition of Dewey's
work, The Essential Dewey presents for the first time a collection of
Dewey's writings that is both manageable and comprehensive. The volume
includes essays and book chapters that exhibit Dewey's intellectual
development over time; the selection represents his mature thinking on
every major issue to which he turned his attention. Eleven part
divisions cover: Dewey in Context; Reconstructing Philosophy;
Evolutionary Naturalism; Pragmatic Metaphysics; Habit, Conduct, and
Language; Meaning, Truth, and Inquiry; Valuation and Ethics; The Aims
of Education; The Individual, the Community, and Democracy; Pragmatism
and Culture: Science and Technology, Art and Religion; and
Interpretations and Critiques. Taken as a whole, this collection
provides unique access to Dewey's understanding of the problems and
prospects of human existence and of the philosophical enterprise.
"... [T]his set should be a very high priority for public
libraries lacking the complete works and is essential for small
college libraries; researchers in libraries with the complete set will
still find these two volumes most useful. All levels." -Choice,
February 1999
