MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02173cam a22002294a 4500
001 2008022221
003 DLC
005 20090514125609.0
008 080523s2008 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008022221
020 $a9780231144865 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780231516167 (ebook : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aB945.D44$bR59 2009
082 00 $a191$222
100 1 $aRogers, Melvin L.
245 14 $aThe undiscovered Dewey :$breligion, morality, and the ethos of democracy /$cMelvin L. Rogers.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$c2009.
300 $axxi, 328 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [297]-318) and index.
505 0 $aDewey and the problem of intellectual retrieval -- Avoiding the criticism : Dewey's darwinian enlightenment -- Redirection : religious certainty and the quest for meaning -- The plan of this book -- Part I: From certainty to contingency -- Protestant self-assertion and spiritual sickness -- Dewey's evasion of Protestant self-assertion and spiritual sickness -- Darwin, science, and the moral economy of self and society -- Hodge and the problem of human agency in the wake of evolution -- Reconciliation and the quest for certainty -- Dewey and the meaningfulness of modern life -- Agency and inquiry after Darwin -- Inquiry and phronemacrosis : Dewey's modified aristotelianism -- Theory, practice, and the quest for certainty -- The experience of living : action and the primacy of contingency -- Contingency and the place of intelligent action -- Part II: Religion, the moral life, and democracy -- Faith and democratic piety -- Democratic self-reliance : Emerson, Dewey, and Niebuhr -- Reading a common faith -- Within the space of moral reflection -- The moral life and the place of conflict -- The expanded self : deliberation, imagination, and sympathy -- The tragic self : deliberation and conflict -- Constraining elites and managing power -- The danger of political pessimism : between Lippmann and Wolin -- Employing and legitimizing power -- The permanence of contingency : on the precarious and stable public.
600 10 $aDewey, John,$d1859-1952.