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Faith in Life : John Dewey's Early Philosophy / Donald J. Morse.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: American PhilosophyPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823285204
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 191
LOC classification:
  • B945.D44
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Dewey’s Project -- 2 Cultural and Intellectual Background -- 3 Rehabilitating Dewey’s Psychology -- 4 The Nature of Knowledge -- 5 What We Know -- 6 Feeling, Will, and Self-Realization -- 7 Beyond Modernist Culture -- 8 A New Idealism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Title is part of eBook package: NYUP / FUP Complete eBook-Package 2019Summary: This is the first book to consider John Dewey’s early philosophy on its own terms and to explicate its key ideas. It does so through the fullest treatment to date of his youthful masterwork, the Psychology. This fuller treatment reveals that the received view, which sees Dewey’s early philosophy as unimportant in its own right, is deeply mistaken. In fact, Dewey’s early philosophy amounts to an important new form of idealism. More specifically, Dewey’s idealism contains a new logic of rupture, which allows us to achieve four things:• A focus on discontinuity that challenges all naturalistic views, including Dewey’s own later view; • A space of critical resistance to events that is at the same time the source of ideals;• A faith in the development of ideals that challenges pessimists like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche; and • A non-traditional reading of Hegel that invites comparison with cutting-edge Continental philosophers, such as Adorno, Derrida, and Zizek, and even goes beyond them in its systematic approach;In making these discoveries, the author forges a new link between American and European philosophy, showing how they share similar insights and concerns. He also provides an original assessment of Dewey’s relationship to his teacher, George Sylvester Morris, and to other important thinkers of the day, giving us a fresh picture of John Dewey, the man and the philosopher, in the early years of his career. Readers will find a wide range of topics discussed, from Dewey’s early reflections on Kant and Hegel to the nature of beauty, courage, sympathy, hatred, love, and even death and despair. This is a book for anyone interested in the thought of John Dewey, American pragmatism, Continental Philosophy, or a new idealism appearing on the scene.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Dewey’s Project -- 2 Cultural and Intellectual Background -- 3 Rehabilitating Dewey’s Psychology -- 4 The Nature of Knowledge -- 5 What We Know -- 6 Feeling, Will, and Self-Realization -- 7 Beyond Modernist Culture -- 8 A New Idealism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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This is the first book to consider John Dewey’s early philosophy on its own terms and to explicate its key ideas. It does so through the fullest treatment to date of his youthful masterwork, the Psychology. This fuller treatment reveals that the received view, which sees Dewey’s early philosophy as unimportant in its own right, is deeply mistaken. In fact, Dewey’s early philosophy amounts to an important new form of idealism. More specifically, Dewey’s idealism contains a new logic of rupture, which allows us to achieve four things:• A focus on discontinuity that challenges all naturalistic views, including Dewey’s own later view; • A space of critical resistance to events that is at the same time the source of ideals;• A faith in the development of ideals that challenges pessimists like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche; and • A non-traditional reading of Hegel that invites comparison with cutting-edge Continental philosophers, such as Adorno, Derrida, and Zizek, and even goes beyond them in its systematic approach;In making these discoveries, the author forges a new link between American and European philosophy, showing how they share similar insights and concerns. He also provides an original assessment of Dewey’s relationship to his teacher, George Sylvester Morris, and to other important thinkers of the day, giving us a fresh picture of John Dewey, the man and the philosopher, in the early years of his career. Readers will find a wide range of topics discussed, from Dewey’s early reflections on Kant and Hegel to the nature of beauty, courage, sympathy, hatred, love, and even death and despair. This is a book for anyone interested in the thought of John Dewey, American pragmatism, Continental Philosophy, or a new idealism appearing on the scene.

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