John Dewey & the High Tide of American Liberalism PDF
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Dewey John and the High Tide of American Liberalism ALAN RYAN ISBN0-393-03773-8 $30.00 USA $40.00 CAN. Dewey John and the High Tide of American Liberalism ALAN RYAN When John Dewey died in 1952, he was memorialized as America's most famous philosopher, revered by liberal educators and deplored by conservatives, but univer- sallyacknowledgedashiscountry'sintellec- tualvoice.AsHenryCommagercommented in TheAmerican Mind, "So faithfully did Dewey live up to his own philosophical creedthathebecametheguide,thementor, andtheconscienceoftheAmericanpeople; it is scarcely an exaggeration to saythat for a generation no issue was clarified until Dewey had spoken." Many things con- spired to give Dewey an extraordinary in- tellectual eminence: He was immensely long-lived and immensely prolific; he died in his ninety-third year, and his intellectual productivity hardly slackened until his eighties. Dewey softened the sharp contrasts in which philosophers, theologians, politi- cians, and writers on cultural issues have tended to trade. His mature philosophy spoketoavastaudienceofreaderswho,like himself, felt a deep needto believe that sci- ence would not undermine faith, that radi- (continuedonbackflap) JacketdesignbyFrancineKass JacketpaintingbyEdwinBurrageChild,JohnDewey, 1929 ColumbiaUniversityintheCityofNewYork JacketpaintingphotographedbyDwightPrimiano, EastGreenwich,RI If— is <, Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 http://www.archive.org/details/johndeweyhightidOOryan Dewey John AlanRyanisalsotheauthorof: ThePhilosophyofJohnStuartMill ThePhilosophyoftheSocialSciences J.S.Mill PropertyandPoliticalTheory Property BertrandRussell:APoliticalLife andtheeditorof: SocialExplanation Justice
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