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The political writings / John Dewey ; edited, with introduction, by Debra Morris and Ian Shapiro.
- Title
- The political writings / John Dewey ; edited, with introduction, by Debra Morris and Ian Shapiro.
- Author
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952
- Publication
- Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., c1993.
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- Description
- xix, 248 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- This welcome anthology presents for the first time in one volume John Dewey's major political writings. Ranging throughout his career, the selections display Dewey's philosophical method, his controversial views on war and education, his essential contributions to democratic theory, and his distinctive brand of progressive political ideology. A substantial introductory essay sets the selections in historical context, explains their continuing relevance to American politics, and explores the revivial of interest in Dewey in recent years.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Conscience and Compulsion (1917) -- The Future of Pacifism (1917) -- Conscience and Intelligence in War (1917) -- Morals and the Conduct of States (1918) -- Democratic Ends Need Democratic Methods for Their Realization (1939) -- The Basic Values and Loyalties of Democracy (1941) -- Culture and Human Nature (1939) -- Democracy and Human Nature (1939) -- Means and Ends: Their Interdependence, and Leon Trotsky's Essay on 'Their Morals and Ours' (1938) -- I Believe (1939) -- Creative Democracy -- The Task Before Us (1939) -- John Dewey Responds (1950).
- ISBN
- 0872201910 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0872201902 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^93008944^
- OCLC
- 28339553
- SCSB-10011634
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library