Just one more species doing its best
Richard Rorty, 25 July 1991
The Later Works 1925-1953. Vol. XVII: Miscellaneous Writings, 1885-1953
by John Dewey, edited by Jo Ann Boydston.
Southern Illinois, 786 pp., $50, August 1990,0 8093 1661 7 Show More
by John Dewey, edited by Jo Ann Boydston.
Southern Illinois, 786 pp., $50, August 1990,
John Dewey and American Democracy
by Robert Westbrook.
Cornell, 608 pp., $32.95, May 1991,0 8014 2560 3 Show More
by Robert Westbrook.
Cornell, 608 pp., $32.95, May 1991,
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank and Lewis Mumford
by Casey Blake.
North Carolina, 370 pp., $38.45, November 1990,0 8078 1935 2 Show More
by Casey Blake.
North Carolina, 370 pp., $38.45, November 1990,
“... Many American intellectuals of the first half of our century – especially those discussed in Casey Blake’s Beloved Community – targeted Dewey as a symbol of all that was immature, unreflective and dangerous about the United States. In 1926 Lewis Mumford said that ‘the deficiencies of Mr Dewey’s philosophy are the ... ”
