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| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Liberalism and Social Action John Dewey, 2000 In this, one of Dewey's most accessible works, he surveys the history of liberal thought from John Locke to John Stuart Mill, in his search to find the core of liberalism for today's world. While liberals of all stripes have held to some very basic values-liberty, individuality, and the critical use of intelligence-earlier forms of liberalism restricted the state function to protecting its citizens while allowing free reign to socioeconomic forces. But, as society matures, so must liberalism as it reaches out to redefine itself in a world where government must play a role in creating an environment in which citizens can achieve their potential. Dewey's advocacy of a positive role for government-a new liberalism-nevertheless finds him rejecting radical Marxists and fascists who would use violence and revolution rather than democratic methods to aid the citizenry. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: John Dewey: Political theory and social practice J. E. Tiles, 1992 |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism Alan Ryan, 1995 [A] brilliant intellectual biography. . . . Ryan submits incisive, compressed accounts of Dewey's important works and, with considerable flair, describes the major political debates into which Dewey entered. Ryan has an expert historian's grasp on the major events of the century and weaves them skillfully through Dewey's life story. --Mark Edmundson, Washington Post Book World |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: The Public and Its Problems John Dewey, Melvin L. Rogers, 2012 An annotated edition of John Dewey's work of democratic theory, first published in 1927. Includes a substantive introduction and bibliographical essay--Provided by publisher. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Freedom and Culture John Dewey, 1963 |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: The Right Way to Flourish John Ehrenfeld, 2019-10-08 In this ground-breaking book, pre-eminent thought leader in the fields of sustainability and flourishing, John R. Ehrenfeld, critiques the concept of sustainability as it is understood today and which is coming more and more under attack as unclear and ineffective as a call for action. Building upon the recent work of cognitive scientist, Iain McGilchrist, who argues that the human brain’s two hemispheres present distinct different worlds, this book articulates how society must replace the current foundational left-brain-based beliefs – a mechanistic world and a human driven by self interest – with new ones based on complexity and care. Flourishing should replace the lifeless metrics now being used to guide business and government, as well as individuals. Until we accept that our modern belief structure is, itself, the barrier, we will continue to be mired in an endless succession of unsolved problems. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Special Education Re-formed Harry Daniels, 2000 In this volume, a respected group of researchers and practitioners, who share concerns for equity and excellence in education, write about their thoughts and concerns for the future of special needs education. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: John Dewey and American Democracy Robert B. Westbrook, 2015-07-22 Over a career spanning American history from the 1880s to the 1950s, John Dewey sought not only to forge a persuasive argument for his conviction that democracy is freedom but also to realize his democratic ideals through political activism. Widely considered modern America's most important philosopher, Dewey made his views known both through his writings and through such controversial episodes as his leadership of educational reform at the turn of the century; his support of American intervention in World War I and his leading role in the Outlawry of War movement after the war; and his participation in both radical and anti-communist politics in the 1930s and 40s. Robert B. Westbrook reconstructs the evolution of Dewey's thought and practice in this masterful intellectual biography, combining readings of his major works with an engaging account of key chapters in his activism. Westbrook pays particular attention to the impact upon Dewey of conversations and debates with contemporaries from William James and Reinhold Niebuhr to Jane Addams and Leon Trotsky. Countering prevailing interpretations of Dewey's contribution to the ideology of American liberalism, he discovers a more unorthodox Dewey—a deviant within the liberal community who was steadily radicalized by his profound faith in participatory democracy. Anyone concerned with the nature of democracy and the future of liberalism in America—including educators, moral and social philosophers, social scientists, political theorists, and intellectual and cultural historians—will find John Dewey and American Democracy indispensable reading. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: The Handbook of Dewey’s Educational Theory and Practice Charles L. Lowery, Patrick M. Jenlink, 2019-08-05 In the last twenty-five years there has been a great deal of scholarship about John Dewey’s work, as well as continued appraisal of his relevance for our time, especially in his contributions to pragmatism and progressivism in teaching, learning, and school learning. The Handbook of Dewey’s Educational Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive, accessible, richly theoretical yet practical guide to the educational theories, ideals, and pragmatic implications of the work of John Dewey, America’s preeminent philosopher of education. Edited by a multidisciplinary team with a wide range of perspectives and experience, this volume will serve as a state-of-the-art reference to the hugely consequential implications of Dewey’s work for education and schooling in the 21st century. Organized around a series of concentric circles ranging from the purposes of education to appropriate policies, principles of schooling at the organizational and administrative level, and pedagogical practice in Deweyan classrooms, the chapters will connect Dewey’s theoretical ideas to their pragmatic implications. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Vocations of Political Theory Jason A. Frank, John Tambornino, 2000 Content Description pt. 1. Invoking political theory. Political theory : from vocation to invocation / Sheldon S. Wolin -- pt. 2. Theorizing loss. Specters and angels at the end of history / Wendy Brown -- The politics of nostalgia and theories of loss / J. Peter Euben -- pt. 3. Thinking in time. Can theorists make time for belief? / Russell Arben Fox -- The history of political thought as a vocation : a pragmatist defense / David Paul Mandell -- pt. 4. The politics of ordinary life. Political theory for losers / Thomas L. Dumm -- Feminism's flight from the ordinary / Linda M.B. Zerilli -- pt. 5. Political knowledge. Conceptions of science in political theory : a tale of cloaks and daggers / Mark B. Brown -- Political theory as a provocation : an ethos of political theory / Lon Troyer -- Gramsci, organic intellectuals, and cultural studies : lessons for political theorists? / Shane Gunster -- pt. 6. Practicing political theory. Reading the body : hobbes, body politics, and the task of political theory / Samantha Frost -- Work, shame, and the chain gang : the new civic education / Jill Locke -- The nobility of democracy / William E. Connolly. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Pragmatism and Political Theory Matthew Festenstein, 1997-12-22 Pragmatism has enjoyed a considerable revival in the latter part of the twentieth century, but what precisely constitutes pragmatism remains a matter of dispute. In reconstructing the pragmatic tradition in political philosophy, Matthew Festenstein rejects the idea that it is a single, cohesive doctrine. His incisive analysis brings out the commonalities and shared concerns among contemporary pragmatists while making clear their differences in how they would resolve those concerns. His study begins with the work of John Dewey and the moral and psychological conceptions that shaped his philosophy. Here Festenstein lays out the major philosophic issues with which first Dewey, and then his heirs, would grapple. The book's second part traces how Dewey's approach has been differently developed, especially in the work of three contemporary pragmatic thinkers: Richard Rorty, Jurgen Habermas, and Hilary Putnam. This first full-length critical study of the relationship between the pragmatist tradition and political philosophy fills a significant gap in contemporary thought. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Democratic Education and the Public Sphere Masamichi Ueno, 2015-07-30 This book considers John Dewey’s philosophy of democratic education and his theory of public sphere from the perspective of the reconstruction and redefinition of the dominant liberalist movement. By bridging art education and public sphere, and drawing upon contemporary mainstream philosophies, Ueno urges for the reconceptualization of the education of mainstream liberalism and indicates innovative visions on the public sphere of education. Focusing on Dewey’s theory of aesthetic education as an origin of the construction of public sphere, chapters explore his art education practices and involvement in the Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia, clarifying the process of school reform based on democratic practice. Dewey searched for an alternative approach to public sphere and education by reimagining the concept of educational right from a political and ethical perspective, generating a collaborative network of learning activities, and bringing imaginative meaning to human life and interaction. This book proposes educational visions for democracy and public sphere in light of Pragmatism aesthetic theory and practice. Democratic Education and the Public Sphere will be key reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate studies in the fields of the philosophy of education, curriculum theory, art education, and educational policy and politics. The book will also be of interest to policy makers and politicians who are engaged in educational reform. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Keeping Faith Cornel West, 2021-11-18 In this powerful collection by one of today's leading African American intellectuals, Keeping Faith situates the current position of African Americans, tracing the geneology of the Afro-American Rebellion from Martin Luther King to the rise of black revolutionary leftists. In Cornel West's hands issues of race and freedom are inextricably tied to questions of philosophy and, above all, to a belief in the power of the human spirit. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: John Dewey and Contemporary Challenges to Democratic Education Michael G. Festl, 2024-09-23 This book reconsiders pragmatist conceptions of democratic education, especially those of John Dewey. It addresses what democratic education can mean in the face of current threats that are undermining democracy. Since the mid-twentieth century, liberal philosophers have been skeptical of fostering values through public education. Since liberal democracy must embrace different worldviews, education, especially public education, must refrain from teaching values as much as possible. Given the recent undermining of democratic nation-states and their liberal foundations, this educational abstinence can be interpreted as one of the drivers of the current crisis of democracy. This book sketches how a renewed democratic education, modeled after John Dewey and other forms of pragmatist educational philosophy, might look today. It identifies the conceptual, political, and technological challenges to education and democracy and explores how a new democratic education could be implemented in the classroom. John Dewey and Contemporary Challenges to Democratic Education will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in pragmatism and American philosophy, the philosophy of education, and political philosophy. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: The American Evasion of Philosophy Cornel West, 1989-05-09 Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West’s basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism. John Dewey is the central figure in West’s pantheon of pragmatists, but he treats as well such varied mid-century representatives of the tradition as Sidney Hook, C. Wright Mills, W. E. B. Du Bois, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Lionel Trilling. West’s genealogy is, ultimately, a very personal work, for it is imbued throughout with the author’s conviction that a thorough reexamination of American pragmatism may help inspire and instruct contemporary efforts to remake and reform American society and culture. West . . . may well be the pre-eminent African American intellectual of our generation.—The Nation The American Evasion of Philosophy is a highly intelligent and provocative book. Cornel West gives us illuminating readings of the political thought of Emerson and James; provides a penetrating critical assessment of Dewey, his central figure; and offers a brilliant interpretation—appreciative yet far from uncritical—of the contemporary philosopher and neo-pragmatist Richard Rorty. . . . What shines through, throughout the work, is West's firm commitment to a radical vision of a philosophic discourse as inextricably linked to cultural criticism and political engagement.—Paul S. Boyer, professor emeritus of history, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Wisconsin Project on American Writers Frank Lentricchia, General Editor |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Authority and the Liberal Tradition Robert Heineman, 2020-02-17 Authority and the Liberal Tradition critically describes the historical foundations of modem liberalism, implicitly analyzing the status and effectiveness of American democracy. Heineman examines contemporary liberal ideology, which he argues undermines the normative basis of social stability that was an Important element in the classical liberal tradition. Heineman shows how American government has become hostage to ideology, to the advocacy of interest-group politics. Placing major Anglo-American thinkers from Hobbes to Rorty in their social contexts, Heineman traces the liberal intellectual perspective as it has evolved from the integration of culture and philosophy. He illustrates how the disjunction of theory and culture now weakens liberal thought as a foundation for effective government. Instead, he proposes returning to a philosophical position that consciously relies on community traditions and values, which can support democratic ideology. Authority and the Liberal Tradition is especially timely at this juncture In American history, as fragmentation of the national policy process threatens government's ability to cope with major problems. This second edition includes two chapters of entirely new material: “Liberal Ideology in a Conservative Nation” and The Dialogue of Modem Liberalism.” It will be of interest to political scientists, social theorists, and philosophers. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Communication Ethics Kathleen Glenister Roberts, Ronald C. Arnett, 2008 This volume occasions a dialogue between major authors in the field who engage in a conversation on cosmopolitanism and provinciality from a communication ethics perspective. There is no consensus on what constitutes communication ethics, cosmopolitanism, or provinciality: the task is more modest and diverse and began with contributors being asked what the bias of their work suggests or offers for understanding the theme Communication Ethics: Between Cosmopolitanism and Provinciality. Rather than responding authoritatively, each essay acknowledges the contributor's own work. This book offers no answers, but invites a conversation that is more akin to a beginning, a joining, an admission that there is more than «me», «us», or «my kind» of people, theory, or wisdom. The book will be an excellent resource for instructors and for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in communication. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: The Progressive Revolution in Politics and Political Science John A. Marini, Ken Masugi, 2005 Songs Beyond Mankind: Poetry and the Lager from Dante to Primo Levi is the eighteenth in a series of publications occasioned by the annual Bernardo Lecture at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University. This series offers public lectures that have been given by distinguished medieval and Renaissance scholars on topics and figures representative of these two important historical, religious, and intellectual periods. Professor Pertile s lecture, Songs Beyond Mankind, asks whether there is a degree of suffering and degradation beyond which a man or woman ceases to be a human being, a point beyond which our soul dies and what survives is pure physiology. And, if yes, to what extent may literature be capable of preserving our humanity in the face of unspeakable pain? These are some of the issues that this lecture addresses by considering two systems of suffering, the hells described by Dante in his Inferno and Primo Levi in Survival in Auschwitz. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Death of a Nation David W. Noble, 2002 In the 1940s, American thought experienced a cataclysmic paradigm shift. Before then, national ideology was shaped by American exceptionalism and bourgeois nationalism: elites saw themselves as the children of a homogeneous nation standing outside the history and culture of the Old World. This view repressed the cultures of those who did not fit the elite vision: people of color, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants. David W. Noble, a preeminent figure in American studies, inherited this ideology. However, like many who entered the field in the 1940s, he rejected the ideals of his intellectual predecessors and sought a new, multicultural, postnational scholarship. Throughout his career, Noble has examined this rupture in American intellectual life. In Death of a Nation, he presents the culmination of decades of thought in a sweeping treatise on the shaping of contemporary American studies and an eloquent summation of his distinguished career. Exploring the roots of American exceptionalism, Noble demonstrates that it was a doomed ideology. Capitalists who believed in a bounded nationalism also depended on a boundless, international marketplace. This contradiction was inherently unstable, and the belief in a unified national landscape exploded in World War II. The rupture provided an opening for alternative narratives as class, ethnicity, race, and region were reclaimed as part of the nation's history. Noble traces the effects of this shift among scholars and artists, and shows how even today they struggle to imagine an alternative post-national narrative and seek the meaning of local and national cultures in an increasingly transnational world. While Noble illustrates the challenges thatthe paradigm shift created, he also suggests solutions that will help scholars avoid romanticized and reductive approaches toward the study of American culture in the future. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: EBOOK: Education and the Struggle for Democracy Wilfred Carr, Anthony Hartnett, 1996-03-16 During the past decade there has been a series of radical changes to the educational system of England and Wales. This book argues that any serious study of these changes has to engage with complex questions about the role of education in a modern liberal democracy. Were these educational changes informed by the needs and aspirations of a democratic society? To what extent will they promote democratic values and ideals? These questions can only be adequately addressed by making explicit the political ideas and the underlying philosophical principles that have together shaped the English educational system. To this end, the book provides a selective history of English education which exposes the connections between decisive periods of educational change and the intellectual and political climate in which it occurred. It also connects the educational policies of the 1980s and 90s to the political ideas of the New Right in order to show how they are part of a broader political strategy aimed at reversing the democratic advances achieved through the intellectual and political struggles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book proposes that a democratic educational vision can only effectively be advanced by renewing the 'struggle for democracy' - the historical struggle to create forms of education which will empower all citizens to participate in an open, pluralistic and democratic society. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Practices of Citizenship in East Africa Katariina Holma, Tiina Kontinen, 2019-11-04 Practices of Citizenship in East Africa uses insights from philosophical pragmatism to explore how to strengthen citizenship within developing countries. Using a bottom-up approach, the book investigates the various everyday practices in which citizenship habits are formed and reformulated. In particular, the book reflects on the challenges of implementing the ideals of transformative and critical learning in the attempts to promote active citizenship. Drawing on extensive empirical research from rural Uganda and Tanzania and bringing forward the voices of African researchers and academics, the book highlights the importance of context in defining how habits and practices of citizenship are constructed and understood within communities. The book demonstrates how conceptualizations derived from philosophical pragmatism facilitate identification of the dynamics of incremental change in citizenship. It also provides a definition of learning as reformulation of habits, which helps to understand the difficulties in promoting change. This book will be of interest to scholars within the fields of development, governance, and educational philosophy. Practitioners and policy-makers working on inclusive citizenship and interventions to strengthen civil society will also find the concepts explored in this book useful to their work. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429279171, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Do Federal Social Programs Work? David B. Muhlhausen, 2013-04-09 Addressing an issue of burning interest to every taxpayer, a Heritage Foundation scholar brings objective analysis to bear as he responds to the important—and provocative—question posed by his book's title. Of course, the answer to that question will also help determine whether the American public should fear budget cuts to federal social programs. Readers, says author David B. Muhlhausen, can rest easy. As his book decisively demonstrates, scientifically rigorous national studies almost unanimously find that the federal government fails to solve social problems. To prove his point, Muhlhausen reports on large-scale evaluations of social programs for children, families, and workers, some advocated by Democrats, some by Republicans. But it isn't just the results that matter. It's the lesson to readers on how Americans can—and should—accurately assess government programs that cost hundreds of billions of dollars each year. At the book's core is an insistence that we move beyond anecdotal reasoning and often-partisan opinion to measure the effectiveness of social programs using objective analysis and scientific methods. At the very least, the results of such analysis will, like this book, provide a sound basis for much-needed public debate. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: The American Experiment James MacGregor Burns, 2013-05-21 The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War. In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vineyard of Liberty, he combines the color and texture of early American life with meticulous scholarship. Focusing on the tensions leading up to the Civil War, Burns brilliantly shows how Americans became divided over the meaning of Liberty. In The Workshop of Democracy, Burns explores more than a half-century of dramatic growth and transformation of the American landscape, through the addition of dozens of new states, the shattering tragedy of the First World War, the explosion of industry, and, in the end, the emergence of the United States as a new global power. And in The Crosswinds of Freedom, Burns offers an articulate and incisive examination of the US during its rise to become the world’s sole superpower—through the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the rapid pace of technological change that gave rise to the “American Century.” |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Democratic Theory and Technological Society Richard B. Day, Ronald Beiner, Joseph Masciulli, 2017-07-05 What are the chief challenges posed to contemporary democracy by modern technology, and how can democratic theory best respond to, or at least reflect on, those challenges? Inhabiting the kind of technologically advanced era in which we live, what sources are available within political theory for theoretical insight concerning the problem of democratic engagement with technology? The purpose of this volume is to canvas a broad range of theorists and theoretical traditions in order to address these questions, including Hegel and Marx, Rousseau and John Dewey, Heidegger and Simone Weil, Habermas and Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt and Hans Jonas. Commentaries on all these important thinkers -- focused on the issue of contemporary technology as posing unique social and political challenges for democratic political life -- yields rich and ambitious resources for theoretical reflection. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Pragmatic Bioethics Glenn McGee, 2003 Using the perspective of pragmatism to guide the American debate about bioethics. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Divided We Stand John Harmon McElroy, 2006 American culture is on life-support. Beginning in the 1960s a generation of activists twisted and bent long-held American beliefs into an ideology of blame and political correctness-weakening and disrupting the nation. As John Harmon McElroy powerfully demonstrates, the counter-culture has become pervasive, with devastating results. He shows how we neglect to educate our children and call it teaching self esteem; how we assail the worth of America and call it respecting diversity; and how we refuse to take responsibility for our lives and call it social justice. In tracing the roots and impact of the counter-culture's rejection of historical American beliefs, McElroy powerfully defends the bedrock principles of responsible individualism, practical improvement, and equal freedom under God. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Vindicating the Founders Thomas G. West, 2000-11-28 This controversial, convincing, and highly original book is important reading for everyone concerned about the origins, present, and future of the American experiment in self-government. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Liberal Economics and Democracy Conrad Waligorski, 1997 Waligorski shows why there is such resilience and viability to this brand of liberalism. The chapter on Keynes is as good a short piece on the economist as can be found anywhere. -- Kenneth M. Dolbeare, author of American Political Thought. A coherent and insightful book by a sagacious thinker. -- Charles E. Lindblom, author of Politics and Markets. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and Democracy Russell Hardin, 2003 In his ground-breaking book, the leading political philosopher Russell Hardin develops a new theory of liberal constitutional democracy. Arguing against the standard consensus theories, the author shows how social co-ordination on limited, sociological mutual advantage lies at the heart of liberal constitutionalism when it works to produce stable government. The book argues that liberalism, constitutionalism, and democracy are co-ordination theories. They work only in societies in whichco-ordination of the important power groups for mutual advantage is feasible. It then goes on to examine and interpret the US constitution as motivated centrally by the concern with creating a government to enable commerce. In addition, the book addresses the nature of the problems that the newly democratic, newly market-oriented states face. The analysis of constitutionalism is based on its workability, not on its intrinsic, normative, or universal appeals. Hardin argues, similarly, there areharsh limits on the possibilities of democracy. In general, democracy works only on the margins of great issues. Indeed, it is inherently a device for regulating marginal political conflicts. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Exploring Fact and Value Abraham Edel, 1980-01-01 The great twentieth-century dichotomy that has pervaded moral philosophy and value theory on the one hand and social science and social theory on the other, concerns this volume. Part one approaches this dichotomy between fact (knowledge/science) and value (worth/morality) from different angles. It opens with a general study of the way value and fact are construed, then locates where scientific materials enter into ethics. Part two deals with issues of moral attitude and practical responsibility in the work of science and technology. Scientists' social responsibility as a function of changing social roles of science, and knowledge and responsibility in the professions are examined. In the concluding chapter Edel examines the dichotomy between fact and value as a social and an ideational phenomenon. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Radicalizing Democracy for the Twenty-first Century Jane Mummery, 2016-11-18 Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Situating radical democracy -- 1 The idea of democracy -- 2 Theories of radical democracy -- Part II Radical democracy in action -- 3 Subjects and agency: Who is the radical democrat? -- 4 Communities in question: Where is the radical democrat? -- 5 Radical deliberations: The radical democrat in action -- Part III Radical democracy in a globalized world -- 6 Radical cosmopolitanism -- 7 Greening democracy as radical democracy -- Conclusion -- Index |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Pragmatic Fashions John J. Stuhr, 2015-11-10 John J. Stuhr, a leading voice in American philosophy, sets forth a view of pragmatism as a personal work of art or fashion. Stuhr develops his pragmatism by putting pluralism forward, setting aside absolutism and nihilism, opening new perspectives on democracy, and focusing on love. He creates a space for a philosophy that is liable to failure and that is experimental, pluralist, relativist, radically empirical, radically democratic, and absurd. Full color illustrations enhance this lyrical commitment to a new version of pragmatism. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Human Flourishing, Liberal Theory, and the Arts Menachem Mautner, 2018-04-09 This book claims that in addition to autonomy, liberal tradition recognizes human flourishing as an ideal of the good life. There are two versions of the liberalism of flourishing: for one the good life consists in the ability of an individual to develop her intellectual and moral capabilities, and for the other the good life is one in which an individual succeeds in materializing her varied human capabilities. Both versions expect the state to create the background conditions for flourishing. Combining the history of ideas with analytical political philosophy, Menachem Mautner finds the roots of the liberalism of flourishing in the works of great philosophers, and argues that for individuals to reach flourishing they need to engage with art. Art provides us with wisdom, insight, critical social and political thinking, and moral education. Thus, a state which practices the liberalism of flourishing must play an active role in funding the creation and dissemination of art. Consequently, the liberalism of flourishing is better equipped than autonomy liberalism to compete with religion in the domains of meaning and over the shape of the regime, the political culture and the law in countries in which liberalism is contested. Political theorists and lawyers will enjoy engaging with this version of liberalism, as will students of social democracy and art policy. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: The Indignant Generation Lawrence P. Jackson, 2021-10-12 Recovering the lost history of a crucial era in African American literature The Indignant Generation is the first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. The years between these two indispensable epochs saw the communal rise of Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, and many other influential black writers. While these individuals have been duly celebrated, little attention has been paid to the political and artistic milieu in which they produced their greatest works. With this commanding study, Lawrence Jackson recalls the lost history of a crucial era. Looking at the tumultuous decades surrounding World War II, Jackson restores the indignant quality to a generation of African American writers shaped by Jim Crow segregation, the Great Depression, the growth of American communism, and an international wave of decolonization. He also reveals how artistic collectives in New York, Chicago, and Washington fostered a sense of destiny and belonging among diverse and disenchanted peoples. As Jackson shows through contemporary documents, the years that brought us Their Eyes Were Watching God, Native Son, and Invisible Man also saw the rise of African American literary criticism—by both black and white critics. Fully exploring the cadre of key African American writers who triumphed in spite of segregation, The Indignant Generation paints a vivid portrait of American intellectual and artistic life in the mid-twentieth century. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Why We're Liberals Eric Alterman, 2008-03-13 The bestselling author and Newsweek columnist takes a characteristically irreverent look at the rampant mistreatment of liberals and liberalism The most honest and incisive media critic writing today(National Catholic Reporter), Eric Alterman is committed to restoring the liberal tradition to its honored place as the political philosophy of mainstream American citizens. In this bracing and well-documented counterattack on right- wing spin and misinformation, Alterman briskly disposes of the canards and false definitions that have been foisted upon liberals by the right and have been accepted unquestioningly by nearly everyone else. The perfect post-election book for all those who are ready to fight back against the conservative mudslinging machine and reclaim their voices in the political process, Why We're Liberals brings clarity and perspective to the possibility of a new day in America. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy Jacquelyn Kegley, Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski, 2013-01-25 This collection of essays focuses on the roles that coercion and persuasion should play in contemporary democratic political systems or societies. A number of the authors advocate new approaches to this question, offering various critiques of the dominant classical liberalism views of political justification, freedom, tolerance and the political subject. A major concern is with the conversational character of democracy. Given the problematic and ambiguous status of the many differences present in contemporary society, the authors seek to alert us to the danger, that an emphasis on reasonable consensus will conceal exclusion in practice of some contending positions. The voices of vulnerable peoples can be unconsciously or even deliberately silenced by various institutional processes and operating procedures and a strong media influence can change the tenor of conversations and even lead to deception. To counter these factors, a number of the essays, in differing ways, urge the fostering of local community conversations or democratic agoras so that democratic debate and conversation might maintain the vitality necessary to a strong democratic system. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism Steven Wall, 2015-02-19 The political philosophy of liberalism was first formulated during the Enlightenment in response to the growth of the modern nation-state and its authority and power over the individuals living within its boundaries. Liberalism is now the dominant ideology in the Western world, but it covers a broad swathe of different (and sometimes rival) ideas and traditions and its essential features can be hard to define. The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism offers a rich and accessible exploration of liberalism as a tradition of political thought. It includes chapters on the historical development of liberalism, its normative foundations, and its core philosophical concepts, as well as a survey of liberal approaches and responses to a range of important topics including freedom, equality, toleration, religion, and nationalism. The volume will be valuable for students and scholars in political philosophy, political theory, and the history of political thought. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Claiming Lincoln Jason Jividen, 2011-01-18 Abraham Lincoln is clearly one of the most frequently cited figures in American political rhetoric, especially with regard to issues of equality. But given the ubiquity of Lincoln's legacy, many references to him, even on the presidential level, are often of questionable accuracy. In Claiming Lincoln, Jividen posits that in much twentieth-century presidential rhetoric, especially from progressive leaders, Lincoln's understanding of equality is slowly divorced from its grounding in the natural rights thinking of the American Founding and reinterpreted in light of progressive history. Claiming Lincoln examines the manner in which rhetoricians have appealed to Lincoln's legacy, only to distort that legacy in the process. Focusing on Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson and touching on Barack Obama, Jividen argues that presidential rhetorical use and abuse of Lincoln has profound consequences not only for how we understand Lincoln but also for how we understand American democracy. Jividen's original take on Lincoln and the Progressives will be of interest to scholars of American politics and all those invested in Lincoln's legacy. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Story of American Freedom Eric Foner, 1999-09-07 Freedom is the cornerstone of his sweeping narrative that focuses not only congressional debates and political treatises since the Revolution but how the fight for freedom took place on plantation and picket lines and in parlors and bedrooms. |
| john dewey liberalism and social action 1: Virtue and Irony in American Democracy Daniel A. Morris, 2015-07-01 What virtues are necessary for democracy to succeed? This book turns to John Dewey and Reinhold Niebuhr, two of America’s most influential theorists of democracy, to answer this question. Dewey and Niebuhr both implied—although for very different reasons—that humility and mutuality are important virtues for the success of people rule. Not only do these virtues allow people to participate well in their own governance, they also equip us to meet challenges to democracy generated by free-market economic policy and practices. Ironically, though, Dewey and Niebuhr quarreled with each other for twenty years and missed the opportunity to achieve political consensus. In their discourse with each other they failed to become “one out of many,” a task that is distilled in the democratic rallying cry “e pluribus unum.” This failure itself reflects a deficiency in democratic virtue. Thus, exploring the Dewey/Niebuhr debate with attention to their discursive failures reveals the importance of a third virtue: democratic tolerance. If democracy is to succeed, we must cultivate a deeper hospitality toward difference than Dewey and Niebuhr were able to extend to each other. |
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Liberalism and Social Action. John Dewey (1859–1952) As a leading Progressive scholar from the 1880s onward, John Dewey, who taught mainly at Columbia University, devoted much of his life to redefining the idea of education.
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John Dewey, a towering figure in 20th-century American philosophy, offered a unique brand of liberalism deeply intertwined with social action. His philosophy, often termed "experimentalism" or "instrumentalism," rejected abstract, fixed principles in favor of a pragmatic, problem-solving approach rooted in experience and democratic ...
Beyond Liberal Democracy - JSTOR
In this essay I argue that Dewey offers us possibilities for moving beyond one key assumption of classical liberalism, individualism, with his theory of social transaction. I focus my discussion for this paper on Deweys renascent liberal democracy.
Liberalism: Theories, Problems, Critiques - University of Oregon
Dewey, “The Future of Liberalism” and selections from Liberalism and Social Action Four packets of selected readings on topics: internet, identity, globalization, and privacy law Marx, “Estranged Labor” section of the 1844 Ms. and “On the Jewish Question”
JOHN DEWEY ON POLITICAL ACTION AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY …
JOHN DEWEY ON POLITICAL ACTION AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY 23 1. Action versus philosophy Discerning a discrepancy between philosophy and political practice is a common place. Rousseau already assumed that looking for the principles of a just political order and taking a course of action don't fuse when, on the first page of The Social Contract, he ...
The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953 . 37 volumes
Liberalism and Social Action (New York: Putnam, 1935). Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (New York: Holt, 1938; London: Allen & Unwin, 1939). Theory of Valuation, volume 2, no. 4 of International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, edited by
John Dewey and the Liberal Science of Community - JSTOR
John Dewey characteristically represents this dilemma of late nine- teenth and early twentieth century liberalism in terms of the relationship between community and democracy.
JOHN DEWEY’S PRAGMATIC PHILOSOPHY AS A CRITIQUE …
thinking? Dewey sought to answer this question in considerable detail in his earlier book Liberalism and Social Action, published in 1935. The story begins with John Locke, who invented the doctrine of “natural rights inherent in individuals independent of social organization” and applied it to criticize the abuses of
JOHN DEWEY, THE NEW LEFT, AND THE POLITICS OF …
Title: John Dewey, the New Left, and the Politics of Contingency and Pluralism Most histories of the New Left emphasize that some variant of Marxism ultimately influenced activists in their pursuit of social change. Through careful examination of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), I argue that New Left thought was not always anti-liberal.
John Dewey - Pragmatism
As a leading representative of the Progressive movement, Dewey’s educational, ethical, economic, and political views embodied that movement’s demands for the expansion of liberty and opportunity in more democratic societies.
John Dewey and the New Liberalism: Some Reflections and Responses …
The really critical problem is addressed only when one asks questions about the historic role John Dewey played in the development of both liberal thought and liberal practice in the twentieth century.
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In Individualism Old and New (1930) and Liberalism and Social Action (1935)~ Dewey addressed the problems associated with changing notions of individualism and liberalism within technological cultures.
Dewey and Radical Action – Thoughts on Dewey’s Political …
The most systematic reflection on radical politics is the lecture series Liberalism and Social Action. I will concentrate here on that piece. In the final lecture, "Renascent Liberalism" Dewey discusses radical politics and the unavoidable question of violence. He writes: "Why is it, apart from our tradition of violence, that liberty of ...
Jane Addams and John Dewey - Oxford Handbooks - PhilArchive
In this chapter, the points of intellectual consonance between Jane Addams and John Dewey are explored, specifically their (1) shared belief that philosophy is a method, (2) parallel commitments to philosophical pragmatism, and (3) similar convictions that phi losophy should serve to address social problems.
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In this essay, John Dewey serves as the key representative of this branch of progressive thought because his work captures core aspects of this vision across the last century. Middle-class, progressive approaches to democracy diverged from more working-class forms.
Pragmatism and Liberalism between Dewey and Rorty - JSTOR
The aim is rather to understand why Dewey's radical liberalism has evolved into Rorty's conservativism and to see whether we can arrive at a more adequate pragmatist liberalism by playing their views off against each
Democracy as a Way of Life: Critical Reflections on a Deweyan …
This article aims to critically assess John Dewey’s ideal of “democracy as a way of life”, an evocative though elusive moral and political ideal linked to both his communal notion of democracy and his reformist view of liberal-ism.
Democracy and the Scientific Method in the Philosophy of John Dewey …
attempt to show: 1) the threefold relationship among philosophy, science, and democracy provides the key to an understanding of Dewey's political thought; 2) the philosophical antecedents of instrumentalism, being inseparable from Dewey's "scientific meth-od," provide normative content for his democratic theory; and 3)
John Dewey’s Experiments in Democratic Socialism
In radicalizing liberalism, Dewey ended up formulating a democratic socialism that strove to expand workers’ control over the social forces that shaped their lives. And that, he had no trouble admitting, required confronting capitalism.
Dewey's Philosophy of the Corporation - JSTOR
These form the subject-mat- ter of Liberalism and Social Action. Historic liberalism was supremely at- tached to three values: freed intel- ligence, liberty, and the opportunity for. necessity for thoroughgoing changes in the set- every individual to develop his po- 120.
What is Liberalism? - University of Cambridge
Both L.T Hobhouse and John Dewey, for example, ... today with many libertarians viewing “social” liberalism as a deplorable form of socialism and ... 1994[1911]); Dewey, Liberalism and Social Action (NYC: Putnam, 1935), 21. 9 Shklar, “Liberalism,” 3. On liberty as “normatively basic” see Gerald Gaus and Shane Courtland,
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4 John Dewey Liberalism And Social Action 1 Published at newredlist-es-data1.iucnredlist.org 1. How does Dewey's concept of "instrumentalism" differ from traditional ethical theories? Dewey’s instrumentalism rejects the search for fixed, a priori moral principles. Instead, it evaluates the moral worth of actions based on their consequences and
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1. Introduction to Liberal Solidarity: The Political Economy of Social ...
The Political Economy of Social Democratic Liberalism ... action between capitalist economies – it is irresponsible to suggest that these ... Leonard T. Hobhouse, David Lloyd George, John Dewey, John Maynard Keynes, William Beveridge, Michael Polanyi, Karl Popper and Amartya Sen. 2 Social democratic liberals promote a greater role for the ...
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11 John Dewey, Liberalism and Social Action, p. 73. 12 John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy, intro., p. ix. 1s John Dewey, Problems of Men, p. 219. 246 THE REVIEW OF POLITICS the test of their validity lies in accomplishing their work; if they do not clear up the defect, then they are false. "Confirmation,
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LSA Liberalism and Social Action (1935) LSC “Liberty and Social Control” (1935) MPL “My Philosophy of Law” (1941) NP “The New Psychology” (1884) ... 1 INTRODUCTION Reclaiming John Dewey’s Legacy for a Radical Theory of Law and Democracy “The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. ...
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POWER AND TRUST IN THE PUBLIC REALM: JOHN DEWEY, SAUL …
contribute more effectively to social justice. John Dewey and the Collaborative Progressives Progressivism emerged at the end of the nineteenth century at a time when America was riven by labor struggles that sometimes seemed to threaten the 6. …
How liberals lost the public: Walter Lippmann, John Dewey, and …
hold of U.S. elites under the auspices of liberalism. Two central figures in this repudiation were Walter Lippmann and John Dewey. In this article, I offer a detailed historical study of the Lippmann-Dewey critique of “the public” to query what is
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John Dewey’s Experimental Politics: Inquiry and Legitimacy - JSTOR
John Dewey’s Experimental Politics: Inquiry and Legitimacy1 Zach VanderVeen ... a discussion about John Rawls’s political liberalism, Rorty argues that “Rawls, following up on Dewey, shows us how liberal democracy can ... such as can be found in the Public and Its Problems Liberalism and or Social Action, are not solutions to be applied ...
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CONSTITUTIONALISM IN AN AGE OF SPEED
-John Dewey, Liberalism and Social Action (1935) 1 Defenders of constitutionalism would do well to heed Dewey's observation that the rapid-fire pace of contemporary social and economic activity poses considerable challenges. For sure, an impressive body of …
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The Enduring Insight of John Dewey - Knight Foundation
TE EDI IIT J DEEY 139 Dewey may seem an odd resource to recall in our current political climate. For if we stand in what Hannah Arendt once called “dark times,”5 Dewey’s optimistic faith in democracy—his unflinching belief in the reflective capacity of human beings to secure the good and avert the bad
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Equality Beyond Debate:John Dewey's Pragmatic Idea of Democracy. By ...
1 Equality Beyond Debate: John Dewey’s Pragmatic Idea of Democracy. By Jeff Jackson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 306p. Matthew Festenstein, University of York Why Dewey now? In this sophisticated presentation, Jeff Jackson provides a robust answer. Dewey is often viewed as a historical progenitor of deliberative conceptions of
The Offstage of Democracy: The Problem of Social Dialogue in John Dewey …
in their research. The same rule should apply to social action since the basis for the 4 Ibidem, p. 186. 5 Ibidem, p. 69. 6 Ibidem, p. 22–26 7 J. Dewey, Liberalism and Social Action. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2000, p. 70. 8 Marcin Kilanowski emphasizes after Jennifer Welchman that, according to Dewey, intellect and
DEWEY STUDIES - JDS
The Middle Works of John Dewey, (MW) The Later Works of John Dewey, (LW) For example: Dewey argues that …. (LW, 5, 56). Full bibliographical information should still be supplied in the references section since many of us may work with different editions of his works. • Endnotes should be used sparingly and be placed before the reference ...
Dewey's Ethical Justification for Public Deliberation Democracy
social deliberation for the entire community’s benefit. Dewey’s model of social deliberation, “public deliberation polyarchy,” applies a kind of “logic” for col-lective action, a process effective because of its ethical foundations. John Dewey developed sophisticated theories for a liberal civil society and a de-liberative democracy.
Democracy as a Way of Life: Critical Reflections on a Deweyan …
John Dewey’s writings from 1916 to 1939 contain the essentials of his democratic theory. Earlier publications, compiled in the critical edition of his ... In Liberalism and Social Action, of 1935, he . Democracy as a Way of Life 159 Res Publica: Revista de Filosofía Política, 2 212 11 1414 ...
Dewey's Concept Of Community: A Last Third Of The
'John Dewey, The Public And Its Problems (Denver: Henry Holt & Company, 1927), p. 216. 'Ibid., p. 98. ... an economic abstraction. Writing in Liberalism And Social Action he said: we have been introduced to the abstraction known as economic man; then the utilit arians added the abstraction of legal and political man — but they failed to touch
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Some of John Dewey's Writings about Inquiry, Ethics, The Individual and the Community, Education, and Democracy ... Dewey restates some of the ideas set out in Liberalism and Social Action in a more popular form. Written during a time when fascism was ascendent in Europe and perceived as attractive by many in the United States, Dewey reminds ...
What is Liberalism? - repository.cam.ac.uk
Both L.T Hobhouse and John Dewey, for example, ... today with many libertarians viewing “social” liberalism as a deplorable form of socialism and ... 1994[1911]); Dewey, Liberalism and Social Action (NYC: Putnam, 1935), 21. 9 Shklar, “Liberalism,” 3. On liberty as “normatively basic” see Gerald Gaus and Shane Courtland,
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