The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 12, 1899 - 1924: 1920, Reconstruction in Philosophy and Essays (Volume 12) (Collected Works of John Dewey)
Published by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL, 1988
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292pp. Wraps are sunned along the edges. Spine has a long vertical crease. Tips and spine ends are lightly bumped and lightly rubbed. Edges of text block are dust stained. Text has some underlining and marginalia. Lower edge of front wrap has a three-inch crease. Text is unmarked. 0809314355.
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- Title
- The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 12, 1899 - 1924: 1920, Reconstruction in Philosophy and Essays (Volume 12) (Collected Works of John Dewey)
- Author
- Dewey, John
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Good Minus
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0809314355
- ISBN 13
- 9780809314355
- Edition
- First Paperback Printing.
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A collection of all of Deweys writings for 1920 with the exception of Letters from China and Japan. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition.
The nineteen items collected here, including his major work, Reconstruction in Philosophy, evolved in the main from Deweys travel, touring, lecturing, and teaching in Japan and China. Ralph Ross notes in his Introduction to this volume that Reconstruction in Philosophy is ?a radical book . . . a pugnacious book by a gentle man. It is in this book that Dewey summarizes his version of pragmatism, then called Instrumentalism. For Dewey, the pragmatist, it was people acting on the strength of intelligence modeled on science who could find true ideas, ones ?we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. Optimism pervades Reconstruction of Philosophy; in keeping with Deweys world of open possibilities, the book recognizes that the observation and thought of human striving can make the difference between despair and affirmation of life.
The seven essays on Chinese politics and social tradition that Dewey sent back from the Orient exhibit both the liveliness and the sensitive power of an insightful mind. Set against a backdrop of Japanese hegemony in China, the last days of Manchu imperialism, Europes carving of China into concessions, and Chinas subsequent refusal to accept the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the essays were startlingly relevant in this time of Eastern turbulence and change.
At the National University of Peking, Dewey delivered a series of lectures on ?Three Contemporary Philosophers: William James, Henri Bergson, and Bertrand Russell. The James and Bergson lectures are published for the first time in this volume. Dewey chose these philosophers, according to Ralph Ross, because he was trying to show ?his oriental audience what he believed and hoped about man and society and was talking about those fellow philosophers who shared the same beliefs and hopes.
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Ralph Ross, formerly Hartley Burr Alexander Professor of Humanities, is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Scripps College and the Graduate Faculty of Claremont Colleges.
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