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...

Except for Dewey s and James H. Tufts 1932 "Ethics "(Volume 7 of The Later Works), this volume brings together Dewey s writings for 1931 1932.The Great Depression presented John Dewey and the American people with a series of economic, political, and social crises in 1931 and 1932 that are reflected in most of the 86 items in this volume, even in philosophical essays such as Human Nature. As Sidney Ratner points out in his Introduction, Dewey s interest in international peace is featured in the writings in this volume."

John Dewey s best-known and still-popular classic, "Democracy and Education, "is presented here as a new edition in Volume 9 of the Middle Works. Sidney Hook, who wrote the introduction to this volume, describes "Democracy and Education: " It illuminates directly or indirectly all the basic issues that are central today to the concerns of intelligent educators. . . . It throws light on several obscure corners in Dewey s general philosophy in a vigorous, simple prose style often absent in his more technical writings. And it is the only work in any field originally published as a textbook that...

Art as Experience evolved from John Dewey's Willam James Lectures, delivered at Harvard University from February to May 1931.

In his Introduction, Abraham Kaplan places Dewey's philosophy of art within the context of his pragmatism. Kaplan demonstrates in Dewey's esthetic theory his traditional "movement from a dualism to a monism" and discusses whether Dewey's viewpoint is that of the artist, the respondent, or the critic.

This volume includes ninety-two items from 1935, 1936, and 1937, including Dewey s 1935 Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia, published as "Liberalism and Social Action."In essay after essay Dewey analyzed, criticized, and reevaluated liberalism. When his controversial "Liberalism and Social Action "appeared, asking whether it was still possible to be a liberal, Horace M. Kallen wrote that Dewey restates in the language and under the conditions of his times what Jefferson s Declaration of Independence affirmed in the language and under the conditions of his. The diverse nature...

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. "

With the exception of "Experience and Nature, "(Volume 1 of the Later Works), this volume contains all of Dewey s writings for 1925 and 1926, as well as his 1927 book, "The Public and Its Problems. A Modern Language Association s Committee on Scholarly Editions "textual edition.The first essay in this volume, The Development of American Pragmatism, is perhaps Dewey s best-known article of these years, emphasizing the uniquely American origins of his own philosophical innovations. Other essays focus on Dewey s continuing investigation of the nature of intelligent conduct, as, for example, his...

This third volume in the definitive edition of Dewey's early work opens with his tribute to George Sylvester Morris, the former teacher who had brought Dewey to the University of Michigan. Morris's death in 1889 left vacant the Department of Philosophy chairmanship and led to Dewey's returning to fill that post after a year's stay at Minnesota. Appearing here, among all his writings from 1889 through 1892, are Dewey's earliest comprehensive statements on logic and his first book on ethics. Dewey's marked copy of the galley-proof for his important article The Present Position of Logical...

This third volume in the definitive edition of Dewey's early work opens with his tribute to George Sylvester Morris, the former teacher who had brought Dewey to the University of Michigan. Morris's death in 1889 left vacant the Department of Philosophy chairmanship and led to Dewey's returning to fill that post after a year's stay at Minnesota. Appearing here, among all his writings from 1889 through 1892, are Dewey's earliest comprehensive statements on logic and his first book on ethics. Dewey's marked copy of the galley-proof for his important article The Present Position of Logical...