America's Public Philosopher

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John Dewey (18591952) was a philosopher, psychologist, educational reformer, and public intellectual. He was a founder of a distinctly American philosophical tradition, pragmatism, and a progressive thinker who spoke out widely on the most important questions of his day.

Eric Thomas Weber is associate professor of educational policy studies and evaluation at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Uniting Mississippi: Democracy and Leadership in the South (2015) and Democracy and Leadership: On Pragmatism and Virtue (2013), among other books. He is executive director of the Society of Philosophers in America and cohost of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast.

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John Dewey was America's greatest public philosopher. This book gathers the clearest and most powerful of Dewey's public writings and shows how they continue to speak to the challenges we face today.

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John Dewey was America's greatest public philosopher. His work stands out for its remarkable breadth, and his deep commitment to democracy led him to courageous progressive stances on issues such as war, civil liberties, and racial, class, and gender inequalities. This book collects the clearest and most powerful of his public writings and shows how they continue to speak to the challenges we face today.

An introductory essay and short introductions to each of the texts discuss the current relevance and significance of Dewey's work and legacy. The book includes forty-six essays on topics such as democracy in the United States, political power, education, economic justice, science and society, and philosophy and culture. These essays inspire optimism for the possibility of a more humane public and political culture, in which citizens share in the pursuit of lifelong education through participation in democratic life. The essays in America's Public Philosopher reveal John Dewey as a powerful example for anyone seeking to address a wider audience and a much-needed voice for all readers in search of intellectual and moral leadership.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Democratic Faith and Education in Unstable Times, by Eric Thomas Weber
Part I: Democracy and the United States

1. Democracy Is Radical
2. Address to National Negro Conference
3. A Symposium on Woman's Suffrage
4. The Challenge of Democracy to Education
5. America in the World
6. Our National Dilemma
7. Pragmatic America
8. The Basic Values and Loyalties of Democracy
9. Creative DemocracyThe Task Before Us
   Part II: Politics and Power
10. Politics and Culture
11. Intelligence and Power
12. Force, Violence, and the Law
13. Why I Am Not a Communist
14. Dualism and the Split Atom
15. Is There Hope for Politics?
16. A Liberal Speaks Out for Liberalism
17. Future of Liberalism
    Part III: Education
18. What Is a School For?
19. Dewey Outlines Utopian Schools
20. Industrial EducationA Wrong Kind
21. Why Have Progressive Schools?
22. Can Education Share in Social Reconstruction?
23. Nationalizing Education
24. The Teacher and the Public
25. Democracy and Education in the World of Today
    Part IV: Social Ethics and Economic Justice
26. Capitalistic or Public Socialism?
27. Does Human Nature Change?
28. The Ethics of Animal Experimentation
29. Ethics and International Relations
30. Dewey Describes Child's New World
31. The Collapse of a Romance
32. The Economic Situation: A Challenge to Education
33. The JoblessA Job for All of Us
    Part V: Science and Society
34. The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy
35. Science, Belief and the Public
36. Social Science and Social Control
37. Education and Birth Control
38. The Supreme Intellectual Obligation
39. The Revolt against Science
    Part VI: Philosophy and Culture
40. The Case of the Professor and the Public Interest
41. Social Absolutism
42. Some Factors in Mutual National Understanding
43. The Basis for Hope
44. Art as Our Heritage
45. The Value of Historical Christianity
46. What Humanism Means to Me
    References
    Index