Dewey's enduring impact: essays on America's philosopher

John Dewey was recognized in his own day as America’s philosopher. His defenses of pragmatism, naturalism, humanism, and democracy stand among the highest achievements of thought, and they helped shape the destiny of America and the world. At a time when the world seems to be reaching a tipping point of social, political, and ecological instability, can Dewey’s philosophy help once again? In this collection of twenty-three essays, written especially for this volume, many of the most prominent scholars on Dewey and pragmatism offer fresh insights and explorations of Dewey’s enduring impact. The contributors are inspired to search for that new enlightenment that Dewey himself sought, and to reconfigure that enlightenment to deal with the pressing problems of our times. Among this book’s contributors are John Peter Anton (University of South Florida), Peter Godfrey-Smith (Harvard University), James Gouinlock (Emory University), Judith M. Green (Fordham University), Larry A. Hickman (Southern Illinois University), Philip Kitcher (Columbia University), Paul Kurtz (University at Buffalo), Joseph Margolis (Temple University), Gregory Fernando Pappas (Texas A&M University), Hilary Putnam (Harvard University), Ruth Anna Putnam (Wellesley College), Jay Schulkin (Georgetown University), and Giuseppe Spadafora (University of Calabria).

• ISBN: 978-1-61614-229-2
• Editorial: Prometheus Books
• Encuadernacion: Tela
• Páginas: 396
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
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