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Frank, among others, show how Dewey dispersed pragmatism throughout American thought and culture.
List of contents
Preliminary Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Originality in Social Context
Part 1. Sublime Reason and the Comforts of Doubt
1. From Calvinism to Evolutionism
2. Healing an "Inward Laceration"
3. Experimentalist in the Making
Part 2. Rendezvous with the New York Avant Garde
4. Contrasting Strategies of Educational Innovation
5. Cultural Disillusionment
6. The Evolution of Mind in Nature
Part 3. The Transformational Potential of Consciousness in Art, Politics, and Science
7. Post-Impressionism, Quantum Mechanics, and the Triumph of Phenomenal Experience
8. Communities of Intelligence and the Politics of Spirit
9. The Function of Judgment in Inquiry
10. Locomotion as a Metaphor for Mind
Part 4. Naturalism Lost and Found
11. Cultural Pragmatism and the Disappearance of Dewey's Naturalism
Conclusion: The Revival of Dewey's Naturalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Thomas C. Dalton is Senior Research Associate with the Office of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is co-author (with V. W. Bergenn) of Early Experience and the Brain: An Historical and Interdisciplinary Synthesis, and co-editor (with Rand Evans) of Reflections in the Mirror of Psychology's Past: Understanding Prominence and the Dynamics of Intellectual Change and (with V. W. Bergenn) of Beyond Heredity and Environment: Myrtle McGraw and the Maturation Controversy. His scholarly research interests include historical studies of the developmental sciences, theoretical studies of consciousness, and the philosophy of mind.
Summary
Tapping archival sources and Dewey's correspondence, this book shows that Dewey had close personal and intellectual ties to scientists and scholars that were influential in forming the mature expression of his thought. It is intended for readers interested in Dewey's philosophy and the intellectual climate that nurtured his original ideas.
