The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 1, 1925 - 1953: 1925, Experience and Nature Volume 1 Contributor(s): Dewey, John (Author), Boydston, Jo Ann (Editor), Hook, Sidney (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0809328119 ISBN-13: 9780809328116 Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: This volume includes all Dewey's writings for 1938 except for "Logic: The Theory of Inquiry "(Volume 12 of The Later Works), as well as his 1939 "Freedom and Culture, Theory of Valuation, "and two items from "Intelligence in the Modern World." "" "Freedom and Culture "presents, as Steven M. Cahn points out, "the essence of his philosophical position: a commitment to a free society, critical intelligence, and the education required for their advance." |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Essays - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Social Science | Essays |
Dewey: 191 |
Series: Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953 |
Physical Information: 1.06" H x 5.71" W x 8.46" (1.19 lbs) 464 pages |
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Publisher Description: John Dewey's Experience and Nature has been considered the fullest expression of his mature philosophy since its eagerly awaited publication in 1925.Irwin Edman wrote at that time that "with monumental care, detail and completeness, Professor Dewey has in this volume revealed the metaphysical heart that beats its unvarying alert tempo through all his writings, whatever their explicit themes." In his introduction to this volume, Sidney Hook points out that "Dewey's Experience and Nature is both the most suggestive and most difficult of his writings." The meticulously edited text published here as the first volume in the series The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953spans that entire period in Dewey's thought by including two important and previously unpublished documents from the book's history: Dewey's unfinished new introduction written between 1947and 1949, edited by the late Joseph Ratner, and Dewey's unedited final draft of that introduction written the year before his death. In the intervening years Dewey realized the impossibility of making his use of the word "experience" understood. He wrote in his 1951draft for a new introduction: "Were I to write (or rewrite) Experience and Nature today I would entitle the book Culture and Nature and the treatment of specific subject-matters would be correspondingly modified. I would abandon the term 'experience' because of my growing realization that the historical obstacles which prevented understanding of my use of 'experience' are, for all practical purposes, insurmountable. I would substitute the term 'culture' because with its meanings as now firmly established it can fully and freely carry my philosophy of experience." |