John Dewey : Critical Assessments

ISBN-13: 9780415053167 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992

Jim Tiles; J. E. Tiles

Opis

During the first half of the century, John Dewey's highly original philosophy exerted an important influence on both academic philosophy and educational thinking in the United States. Between the two World Wars he acquired a national reputation as a political thinker and activist, which has not since been matched. Although his academic influence began to wane with the rise of his career as a political journalist and his reputation was almost totally eclipsed after his death in 1952, a revival of interest in Dewey's work has recently taken place. The on-going assessment and appropriation of a philosopher requires not only the texts of his work, but texts which represent the best critical appraisals of that work. These four volumes draw together, from a variety of scattered sources serving several disciplines, 96 articles, which together constitute a comprehensive critical commentary on Dewey's work. This book is intended for those interested in Dewey's contributions to psychology, education, political theory, epistemology, ethics, value theory, aesthetics or metaphysics.

O autorze

Jim Tiles teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He is the author of Dewey (Routledge, 1990).