| The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 14, 1899 - 1924: Human Nature and Conduct, 1922 Volume 14 Contributor(s): Dewey, John (Author), Boydston, Jo Ann (Editor), Murphey, Murray G. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0809310848 ISBN-13: 9780809310845 Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press OUR PRICE: $82.17 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1983 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Philosophy | Movements - Pragmatism |
| Dewey: 370.176 |
| LCCN: 76007231 |
| Series: John Dewey the Middle Works, 1899-1924 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.8" W x 8.7" (1.14 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Volume 14of The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, series provides an authoritative edition of Dewey's Human Nature and Conduct. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition.
Human Nature and Conduct evolved from the West Memorial Foundation lectures at Stanford University. The lectures were extensively rewritten and expanded into one of Dewey's best-known works. As Murray G. Murphey says in his Introduction, "It was a work in which Dewey sought to make explicit the social character of his psychology and philosophy--something which had long been evident but never so clearly spelled out." Subtitled "An Introduction to Social Psychology," Human Nature and Conduct sets forth Dewey's view that habits are social functions, and that social phenomena, such as habit and custom and scientific methods of inquiry are moral and natural. Dewey concludes, "Within the flickering inconsequential acts of separate selves dwells a sense of the whole which claims and dignifies them. In its presence we put off mortality and live in the universal." |