The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 14, 1899 - 1924: Human Nature and Conduct, 1922 (Volume 14) (Collected Works of John Dewey) - Softcover

Dewey, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809314371 ISBN 13: 9780809314379

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988

Synopsis

Volume 14 of The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899 1924, series provides an authoritative edition of Dewey’s Human Nature and Conduct. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition.

 

Human Nature and Conduct evolved from the West Memorial Foundation lectures at Stanford University. The lectures were ex­tensively rewritten and expanded into one of Dewey’s best-known works. As Murray G. Murphey says in his Introduction, It was a work in which Dewey sought to make ex­plicit the social character of his psychology and philosophy something which had long been evident but never so clearly spelled out.”

 

Subtitled An Introduction to Social Psy­chology,” Human Nature and Conduct sets forth Dewey’s view that habits are social functions, and that social phenomena, such as habit and custom and scientific methods of inquiry are moral and natural. Dewey con­cludes, Within the flickering inconsequen­tial acts of separate selves dwells a sense of the whole which claims and dignifies them. In its presence we put off mortality and live in the universal.”

About this title

About the Author:

Murray G. Murphey is Professor of Amer­ican Civilization at the University of Penn­sylvania.

 

Jo Ann Boydston is Director of the Cen­ter for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

 

Patricia Baysinger, textual editor of this volume, is a member of the Dewey Center staff.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0809314371
• ISBN 13: 9780809314379
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Boydston Jo Ann