Note on Sources and Editions | |
Editor's Introduction | |
Philosophical Method | |
The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy (1917) | p. 1 |
The Problem of Truth (1911) | p. 10 |
Our Guilt in Fascism (1940) | p. 20 |
Anti-Naturalism in Extremis (1943) | p. 25 |
Pragmatism and Democracy | |
Philosophy and Civilization (1927) | p. 32 |
Philosophy and Democracy (1919) | p. 38 |
Freedom and Culture | |
Science and Free Culture (1939) | p. 48 |
Art, Science, and Moral Progress | |
The Ethics of Democracy (1888) | p. 59 |
Intelligence and Morals (1910) | p. 66 |
Individuality, Equality and Superiority (1922) | p. 77 |
Individualism, Old and New | |
Individuality in Our Day (1929) | p. 81 |
Art as Experience | |
Art and Civilization (1934) | p. 89 |
Education for Social Change | |
Ethical Principles Underlying Education (1897) | p. 97 |
Democracy and Education | |
The Democratic Conception in Education (1916) | p. 110 |
The Need of an Industrial Education in an Industrial Democracy (1916) | p. 121 |
Can Education Share in Social Reconstruction? (1934) | p. 125 |
How Much Freedom in New Schools? (1930) | p. 129 |
Pragmatism and the New Deal | |
Philosophies of Freedom (1928) | p. 133 |
Liberalism and Social Action | |
Renascent Liberalism (1935) | p. 142 |
The Pathos of Liberalism (1935) | |
Liberty and Social Control (1935) | p. 158 |
The Need for a New Party (1931) | p. 161 |
The Economic Basis of the New Society (1939) | p. 169 |
From Absolutism to Experimentalism: The Democratic Public and the War Question | |
The Public and Its Problems | |
The Democratic State (1927) | p. 173 |
The Problem of Method (1927) | p. 184 |
Conscience and Compulsion (1917) | p. 192 |
The Future of Pacifism (1917) | p. 195 |
Conscience and Intelligence in War (1917) | p. 198 |
Morals and the Conduct of States (1918) | p. 202 |
Democratic Ends Need Democratic Methods for Their Realization (1939) | p. 205 |
The Basic Values and Loyalties of Democracy (1941) | p. 207 |
Reaffirming Democratic Individualism: The Rejection of Communism | |
Freedom and Culture | |
Culture and Human Nature (1939) | p. 210 |
Democracy and Human Nature (1939) | p. 219 |
Means and Ends: Their Interdependence, and Leon Trotsky's Essay on 'Their Morals and Ours' (1938) | p. 230 |
I Believe (1939) | p. 234 |
Creative Democracy - The Task Before Us (1939) | p. 240 |
John Dewey Responds (1950) | p. 246 |
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The Political Writings
by Dewey, John; Morris, Debra; Shapiro, Ian-
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