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Rescuing Dewey
Essays in Pragmatic Naturalism
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1955
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This book rescues an often misunderstood, underappreciated, and radical John Dewey. It centers on his rejection of traditional epistemology for his original and powerful view of "logic"—with serious implications for general philosophy, the philosophy of the human sciences, including psychology, and the philosophy of democracy. The goal of this work is not to try to rescue Dewey from his critics, but to rescue Dewey from his friends—from those who ignore the implications of Dewey's naturalism to those influenced by Richard Rorty who take Dewey's rejection of insurrectionary politics too far. While it is true that Dewey rejected insurrectionary politics and was no "fire-eating leftist," his analysis of the present was radical in the sense that it went straight to the roots. Peter T. Manicas examines how this made Dewey's politics similar to those of Marx in many crucial ways and the positive effort of these essays places Dewey's naturalism at the forefront, resolving some of the tensions and misunderstandings stemming from his body of work. Doing so requires serious reconsideration of some of his most characteristic views on philosophy—especially of logic and epistemology—science, and democracy.
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1955
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2515-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3020-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
324
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Acknowledgements No access
Introduction No access
1 Pragmatic Philosophy of Science and the Charge of Scientism No access
2 John Dewey and American Psychology No access
3 John Dewey and American Social Science No access
4 Culture and Nature No access
5 Naturalism and Subjectivism: Philosophy for the Future? No access
6 Naturalizing Epistemology: Reconstructing Philosophy No access
7 American Democracy: A New Spirit in the World No access
8 John Dewey: Anarchism and the Political State No access
9 Philosophy and Politics: A Historical Approach to Marx and Dewey No access
10 John Dewey and the Problem of Justice No access
11 Liberalism’s Discontent: America in Search of a Past That Never Was No access
