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John Dewey's
Democracy and Education is a landmark text for pragmatism, and it set the agenda for philosophical reflection on education for years to come. Yet Dewey developed his ideas more richly and subtly in later writings, and these extend well beyond the received view of his work.
Democracy and Education from Dewey to Cavell provides an account of this achievement, but it also exposes tensions between Dewey's work and that of his predecessors, Emerson and Thoreau, especially in the light of the contemporary thinking of Stanley Cavell. Cavell's principal sources are to be found in his inheritance of the work of Wittgenstein and J.L. Austin. These latter sources and Cavell's highly original response to them bring to the fore questions of language that are treated differently and taken less seriously by Dewey. The authors show how such questions are crucial to democracy and education today.
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Paul Standish is Professor of Philosophy of Education at UCL Institute of Education. His work focuses especially on the nature of language and thought, covering the range of philosophy of education and exploring productive tensions between philosophical traditions. His publications include
Education After Postmodernism (1998),
Education in an Age of Nihilism (2000), and
The Therapy of Education: philosophy, happiness, and personal growth (2006), in collaborations with Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, and Richard Smith, as well as
Beyond the Self: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the Limits of Language (1992). He is Chair of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.
Naoko Saito is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education, University of Kyoto. Her area of research is American philosophy and pragmatism and their implications for education. She is the author of
The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson (2005) and
America Tetsugaku no Yoake (
The Dawning of American Philosophy) (2017, Japanese), and co-editor (with Paul Standish) of
Education and the Kyoto School of Philosophy (2012),
Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups (2012), and
Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation: The Truth is Translated (2017).
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Democracy and Education from Dewey to Cavell is an original interpretation of American philosophy, that explores the differences between Cavell and Deweyan pragmatism. .
