In intellectual and academic circles, Ernest van den Haag was respected for his brilliant mind, his outspoken and often highly controversial assertions, and a very unacademic, sharp, biting style.
In intellectual and academic circles, Ernest van den Haag was respected for his brilliant mind, his outspoken and often highly controversial assertion...
Volume 11 brings together all of Dewey's writings for 1918 and 1919. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. Dewey's dominant theme in these pages is war and its after-math. In the Introduction, Oscar and Lilian Handlin discuss his philosophy within the historical context: The First World War slowly ground to its costly conclusion; and the immensely more difficult task of making peace got painfully under way. The armi-stice that some expected would permit a return to normalcy opened instead upon a period of turbulence that agitated fur-ther a society...
Volume 11 brings together all of Dewey's writings for 1918 and 1919. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. De...
Volume 11 brings together all of Dewey's writings for 1918 and 1919. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. Dewey's dominant theme in these pages is war and its after-math. In the Introduction, Oscar and Lilian Handlin discuss his philosophy within the historical context: The First World War slowly ground to its costly conclusion; and the immensely more difficult task of making peace got painfully under way. The armi-stice that some expected would permit a return to normalcy opened instead upon a period of turbulence that agitated fur-ther a society...
Volume 11 brings together all of Dewey's writings for 1918 and 1919. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. De...
During the three years embraced by Volume 7, Dewey published twenty articles" "and reviews, one of the articles of monograph-length, The Psychology of Social Behavior, one small book, "Interest and Effort in Education, "and seventy encyclopedia articles.A salient and arresting feature of the essays is the continuing polemic between Dewey and some of his critics. Ralph Ross, whose perceptive Introduction to the volume provides a broad perspective of the various philosophical" "controversies in which Dewey was engaged, comments that when Dewey was pitting himself against important adversaries,...
During the three years embraced by Volume 7, Dewey published twenty articles" "and reviews, one of the articles of monograph-length, The Psychology of...
A collection of all of Dewey s writings for 1920 with the exception of "Letters from China and Japan. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition."The nineteen items collected here, including his major work, "Reconstruction in Philosophy, "evolved in the main from Dewey s travel, touring, lecturing, and teaching in Japan and China. Ralph Ross notes in his Introduction to this volume that "Reconstruction in Philosophy "is a radical book . . . a pugnacious book by a gentle man. It is in this book that Dewey summarizes his version of pragmatism, then called...
A collection of all of Dewey s writings for 1920 with the exception of "Letters from China and Japan. A Modern Language Association Committee on Schol...
Volume 13 in "The Middle Works of John Dewey, 18991924," series brings together Dewey s writings for 1921 and 1922, with the exception of "Human Nature and Conduct. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition."Ralph Ross notes in his Introduction that the 53" "items constituting this volume defend Dewey s beliefs at 63 and look forward to what he was yet to write. The essays to which Dewey responded, as well as abstracts of articles that have been published only in Japanese, appear as appendixes.The article Valuation and Experimental Knowledge treats a...
Volume 13 in "The Middle Works of John Dewey, 18991924," series brings together Dewey s writings for 1921 and 1922, with the exception of "Human Natur...
Thomas Hobbes in His Time was first published in 1975. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Thomas Hobbes, the seventeenth-century English philosopher, is the subject of lively discussion among philosophers, historians, and political theorists today. Both as a participant in a revolutionary commonwealth and as a student of the science of human nature, Hobbes has achieved a new relevance to contemporary society. As the...
Thomas Hobbes in His Time was first published in 1975. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books on...
