The undiscovered Dewey
Subtitle: religion, morality, and the ethos of democracy
By: Melvin L. Rogers.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780231144865; 9780231516167
Subjects: Dewey, John, -- 1859-1952
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Dewey and the problem of intellectual retrieval; title: Avoiding the criticism : Dewey's darwinian enlightenment; title: Redirection : religious certainty and the quest for meaning; title: The plan of this book; title: Part I: From certainty to contingency; title: Protestant self-assertion and spiritual sickness; title: Dewey's evasion of Protestant self-assertion and spiritual sickness; title: Darwin, science, and the moral economy of self and society; title: Hodge and the problem of human agency in the wake of evolution; title: Reconciliation and the quest for certainty; title: Dewey and the meaningfulness of modern life; title: Agency and inquiry after Darwin; title: Inquiry and phronemacrosis : Dewey's modified aristotelianism; title: Theory, practice, and the quest for certainty; title: The experience of living : action and the primacy of contingency; title: Contingency and the place of intelligent action; title: Part II: Religion, the moral life, and democracy; title: Faith and democratic piety; title: Democratic self-reliance : Emerson, Dewey, and Niebuhr; title: Reading a common faith; title: Within the space of moral reflection; title: The moral life and the place of conflict; title: The expanded self : deliberation, imagination, and sympathy; title: The tragic self : deliberation and conflict; title: Constraining elites and managing power; title: The danger of political pessimism : between Lippmann and Wolin; title: Employing and legitimizing power; title: The permanence of contingency : on the precarious and stable public.