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John Dewey : rethinking our time /
Written in a manner accessible to non-specialists, this book provides an introduction to all areas central to John Dewey's philosophy: aesthetics, social and political philosophy, education, the philosophy of religion, and theory of knowledge. Boisvert situates Dewey as a thinker who could appr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
©1998.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in philosophy of education.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The "naissance" and "renaissance" of American philosophy
- Dewey's reconstruction of the tradition
- 1. The life-world
- Lived experience
- The fallacy of intellectualism
- The primacy of interaction
- Temporality and possibility
- Responsibility
- Evaluating philosophy
- 2. Thinking
- Against epistemology
- Copernican revolutions
- Spectators or inquirers?
- The traits of inquiry
- 3. Democracy
- Winthrop, Locke, and Dewey
- Conjoint, communicated experience
- Freedom as growth
- Equality as individuality
- 4. The public
- Mass or public?
- Problems of the public
- Conditions for reviving the public
- An effective public
- 5. Educating
- A simple credo
- Beyond modern man
- Occupations
- Education is an end in itself
- Education and democracy
- Moral education
- 6. Making
- Art versus arts
- Experience
- Imagination, communication, and expression
- Distraction versus participation
- 7. Devotion
- Religious versus religion
- The :load" carried by traditional religions
- Faith
- God
- Cooperation
- 8. Conclusion
- Postmodern or polytemporal?
- Dewey's relevance.