Dewey

Steven Fesmire

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781136725340
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosopher Biographies

John Dewey (1859 - 1952) was the dominant voice in American philosophy through the World Wars, the Great Depression, and the nascent years of the Cold War. With a professional career spanning three generations and a profile that no public intellectual has operated on in the U.S. since, Dewey's biographer Robert Westbrook accurately describes him as "the most important philosopher in modern American history."

In this superb and engaging introduction, Steven Fesmire begins with a chapter on Dewey's life and works, before discussing and assessing Dewey's key ideas across the major disciplines in philosophy; including metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, educational philosophy, social-political philosophy, and religious philosophy.

This is an invaluable introduction and guide to this deeply influential philosopher and his legacy, and essential reading for anyone coming to Dewey's work for the first time.

Index

Please note that page numbers relating to Notes will contain the letter “n” followed by note number.

• Aboulafia, Mitchell 240
• Absolute idealism (Hegelian) 7, 15, 17, 83–84
• absolutism 68, 119, 120, 162, 163
• accommodation 139, 248
• Adam and Eve 47
• Adams, E. M. 107, 117n56
• adaptation, defined 248
• Addams, Jane xviii, 2, 18–19, 153–54, 156, 164, 186n3, 237, 243n3
  • Nobel Peace Prize awarded to (1931) xxi, 18
• adjustment 222, 223, 226, 248
  • re-adjustment 87, 173, 252, 255
• administrative progressivism 175–76, 177, 178, 179, 180
• Aesop's fable The Lion's Share 3
• aesthetics 4, 5, 28
• aesthetic experience 204, 214, 214n3
• art, science and instrumentalism 208–10
• Art as Experience 189, 194, 196, 210, 248
• and artistic production 198
• consummation 190–96
• knowing and feeling, split between 206–7
• of moral life 203–6
• “Qualitative Thought” 189, 206–8
• roots 197
• and technology 189–216 see also art
• Aesthetics of Natural Environments, The (ed. Carlson and Berleant) 150n16
• affirmations 56, 77n34
• Agrarianism in American Literature (Inge) 211
• Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism, The (Thompson and Hilde) 244n12
• Agrarian Vision, The (Thompson) 216n23, 244n12
• agricultural ethics 234
• Aids to Reflection (Coleridge) 15
• aims 248, 249
• Alexander, Frederick Matthias/Alexander Technique xix, 21, 36n37
• Alexander, Thomas M. 8n7, 9, 79,...