Just one more species doing its best
Richard Rorty, 25 July 1991
The Later Works 1925-1953. Vol. XVII: Miscellaneous Writings, 1885-1953
by John Dewey, edited by Jo Ann Boydston.
Southern Illinois, 786 pp., $50, August 1990,0 8093 1661 7 Show More
by John Dewey, edited by Jo Ann Boydston.
Southern Illinois, 786 pp., $50, August 1990,
John Dewey and American Democracy
by Robert Westbrook.
Cornell, 608 pp., $32.95, May 1991,0 8014 2560 3 Show More
by Robert Westbrook.
Cornell, 608 pp., $32.95, May 1991,
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank and Lewis Mumford
by Casey Blake.
North Carolina, 370 pp., $38.45, November 1990,0 8078 1935 2 Show More
by Casey Blake.
North Carolina, 370 pp., $38.45, November 1990,
“... Many American intellectuals of the first half of our century – especially those discussed in Casey Blake’s Beloved Community – targeted Dewey as a symbol of all that was immature, unreflective and dangerous about the United States. In 1926 Lewis Mumford said that ‘the deficiencies of Mr Dewey’s philosophy are the deficiencies of the American ... ”
