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Rescuing Dewey

Essays in Pragmatic Naturalism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-08-07
Mått162 x 238 x 30 mm
Vikt655 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Ethics and Economics
Antal sidor352
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739125151

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Chapter 1 Table of ContentsChapter 2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 IntroductionPart 4 I: Pragmatism and ScienceChapter 5 1. Pragmatic Philosophy of Science and the Charge of ScientismChapter 6 2. John Dewey and American PsychologyChapter 7 3. John Dewey and American Social ScienceChapter 8 4. Culture and NaturePart 9 II: Not Another EpistemologyChapter 10 5. Naturalism and SubjectivismChapter 11 6. Naturalizing Epistemology: Recent Developments in Psychology and the Sociology of KnowledgePart 12 III: DemocracyChapter 13 7. American Democracy: A New Spirit in the WorldChapter 14 8. John Dewey: Anarchism and the Political StateChapter 15 9. Philosophy and Politics: A Historical Approach to Marx and DeweyChapter 16 10. John Dewey and Problem of JusticeChapter 17 11. Liberalism's Discontent: America in Search for the Past that Never WasPart 18 IV: Why Not Dewey?Chapter 19 12. The Evasion of PhilosophyChapter 20 13. Democratic HopeChapter 21 14. Analytic PragmatismChapter 22 15. Post-Modern PragmatismChapter 23 ReferencesChapter 24 Index

This study is stunningly good in more ways than it is possible to summarize briefly: above all, an author, whose erudition is as wide-ranging as his acumen is deep-cutting, has written a timely work in which historical contextualization and philosophical probity are perfectly balanced. John Dewey is rescued by Peter T. Manicas from narrow and reductive readings; thereby he is made available as a truly contemporary contributor to intellectual debates of broad human significance and debates concerning democratic practices and political deliberation, as much as science and inquiry. Dewey's pragmatic naturalism has no more informed, insightful, and indeed eloquent champion than Peter Manicas; and here Manicas is unquestionably at the top of his game.