Values And Value Theory

• 1. The Concept of Value and Its Travels in Twentieth-Century America Abraham Edel 2. Whatever Happened to Pragmatism? Robert Schwartz 3. John Dewey and the Founding Fathers R. W. Sleeper 4. Dewey and the Class Struggle Peter Manicas 5. Dewey, Inquiry, and Problem-Solving Finbarr W. O'Connor 6. The Gamble for Excellence: John Dewey's Pedagogy of Experience John J. McDermott 7. Thorstein Veblen: Instinctive Values and Evolutionary Science Murray G. Murphey 8. The "TWO Cultures" and the Modem Imagination Leon Edel 9. Truths of Fiction: Value as Metaphor in Modem Literature Chaim Potok 10. Rationality, Ritual. and Relativism Lawrence Foster 11. A Limited Defense of the National Interest Robert L. Simon 12. Teaching "Ethics in Business": Leave It to Sisyphus Ivar Berg 13. Computers at School Israel Scheffler 14. Dirty Hands Joseph Margolis

"This volume is a timely response to Allan Bloom's phenomenally successful book, The Closing of the American Mind. These essays are evidence that there are vigorous academic intellects in the United States committed to open, rational ideals of democracy... Certainly, these American philosophers and the philosopher they are honoring have no intention of following Bloom into some neo-medieval monastery. This festschrift could help alert the academic community to this recidivism in its latest and subtlest form and help set straight the intellectual accounts of values and of education in this troubled period." --Darnell Rucker, Skidmore College