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

John Dewey’s best-known and still-popular classic, Democracy and Educa­tion, is presented here as a new edition in Volume 9 of the Middle Works. Sidney Hook, who wrote the introduction to this volume, describes Democracy and Education: “It illuminates directly or indirectly all the basic issues that are cen­tral today to the concerns of intelligent educators. . . . It throws light on sev­eral obscure corners in Dewey’s general philosophy in a vigorous, simple prose style often absent in his more technical writings. And it is the only work in any field originally published as a textbook that has not merely acquired the status of a classic, but has become the one book that no student concerned with the phi­losophy of education today should leave unread.” Dewey said in 1930 that De­mocracy and Education, “was for many years the one [book] in which my philos­ophy . . . was most fully expounded.”

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
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809328046
• ISBN 13: 9780809328048
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 438
• Editor: Boydston Jo Ann