An edition of The undiscovered Dewey (2008)

The undiscovered Dewey

religion, morality, and the ethos of democracy

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An edition of The undiscovered Dewey (2008)

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Pages
328

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Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy
2012, Columbia University Press
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The undiscovered Dewey: religion, morality, and the ethos of democracy
2008, Columbia University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Dewey 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
191
Library of Congress
B945.D44 R59 2008, B945.D44R59 2008, B945.D44 R59 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
328

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16886330M
Internet Archive
undiscovereddewe0000roge
ISBN 13
9780231144865, 9780231516167
LCCN
2008022221
OCLC/WorldCat
226360283
Library Thing
8333956
Goodreads
6481080

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