Table Of ContentVolume I: The Structure of Experience Preface to the Phoenix Edition Preface Introduction Notes Chronology Bibliography Editor's Note on the Text I. Historical Roots and Reflections 1. From Absolutism to Experimentalism 2. Kant and Philosophic Method 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson 4. The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy 5. The Development of American Pragmatism 6. The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy II. Early Psychological Writings 7. The Psychological Standpoint 8. Psychology as Philosophic Method 9. The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology 10. The Psychology of Effort III. The Experience of Knowing 11. "Consciousness" and Experience 12. The Experimental Theory of Knowledge 13. Experience and Objective Idealism 14. The Practical Character of Reality 15. The Pattern of Inquiry IV. The Metaphysics of Experience 16. The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism 17. Experience and Philosophic Method 18. Existence as Precarious and Stable 19. Experience, Nature and Art 20. Existence, Value and Criticism Volume II: The Lived Experience V. The Culture of Inquiry 21. Escape from Peril 22. Philosophy's Search for the Immutable 23. Science and Society 24. Social Inquiry VI. Experience is Pedagogical 25. Interest in Relation to the Training of the Will 26. My Pedagogic Creed 27. The School and Social Progress 28. The Child and the Curriculum 29. Education as Growth 30. Experience and Thinking 31. The Need of a Theory of Experience 32. Criteria of Experience VII. Experience as Aesthetic 33. The Live Creature 34. The Live Creature and "Etherial Things" 35. Having an Experience VIII. Experience as Problematic: Ethical, Religious, Political, and Social Dimensions 36. The Construction of Good 37. The Lost Individual 38. Toward a New Individualism 39. Search for the Great Community 40. Renascent Liberalism 41. The Problem of Freedom 42. Culture and Human Nature 43. The Human Abode and the Religious Function 44. Morality Is Social
SynopsisJohn J. McDermott's anthology, The Philosophy of John Dewey , provides the best general selection available of the writings of America's most distinguished philosopher and social critic. This comprehensive collection, ideal for use in the classroom and indispensable for anyone interested in the wide scope of Dewey's thought and works, affords great insight into his role in the history of ideas and the basic integrity of his philosophy. This edition combines in one book the two volumes previously published separately. Volume 1, "The Structure of Experience," contains essays on metaphysics, the logic of inquiry, the problem of knowledge, and value theory. In volume 2, "The Lived Experience," Dewey's writings on pedagogy, ethics, the aesthetics of the "live creature," politics, and the philosophy of culture are presented. McDermott has prefaced each essay with a helpful explanatory note and has written an excellent general introduction to the anthology.