The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 9, 1899-1924: Democracy and Education, 1916 (Volume 9) (Collected Works of John Dewey) - Softcover

Dewey, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809328046 ISBN 13: 9780809328048

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Volume 11 brings together all of Dewey's writings for 1918 and 1919. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. Dewey's dominant theme in these pages is war and its after-math. In the Introduction, Oscar and Lilian Handlin discuss his philosophy within the historical context: The First World War slowly ground to its costly conclusion; and the immensely more difficult task of making peace got painfully under way. The armi-stice that some expected would permit a return to normalcy opened instead upon a period of turbulence that agitated fur-ther a society already unsettled by preparations for battle and by debilitating conflict overseas. After spending the first half of 1918-19 on sabbatical from Columbia at the University of California, Dewey traveled to Japan and China, where he lectured, toured, and assessed in his essays the relationship between the two nations. From Peking he reported the student revolt known as the May Fourth Move-ment. The forty items in this volume also include an analysis of Thomas Hobbe's philosophy; an affectionate commemorative tribute to Theodore Roosevelt, our Teddy; the syllabus for Dewey's lectures at the Imperial University in Tokyo, which were later revised and published as Reconstruction in Philosophy; an exchange with former disciple Randolph Bourne about F. Mat-thias Alexander's Man's Supreme Inheritance; and, central to Dew-ey's creed, Philosophy and Democracy. His involvement in a study of the Polish-American community in Philadelphia--resulting in an article, two memoranda, and a lengthy report--is discussed in detail in the Introduction and in the Note on the Confidential Report ofConditions among the Poles in the United States.

About this title

About the Author

Lewis E. Hahn is Chairman of the Editorial Board for the Collected Works of John Dewey and Research Professor of Philosophy.

 

Jo Ann Boydston, General Editor of the Middle Works series, is Director of the Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois Uni­versity at Carbondale.

Review

"These are the essays that Dewey iden-tified years later as the first published writing to present the essentials of the philosophical view that he developed during the succeeding thirty-five years.""--Monist"

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0809328046
• ISBN 13: 9780809328048
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 438
• Editor: Boydston Jo Ann