Table of Contents

Book I: Emergence Childhood The Christian Influence The Beginning of John Dewey's Education A Career in Teaching? Or a Career in Philosophy? Dewey's Philosophic Influences Becoming a Philosopher Finding Both a Philosophic Niche and a Job Dewey in Love Dewey's Philosophy Expands Dewey's Reputation Builds Fred Dewey To Minnesota and Back to Michigan Writing About Ethics A Utopian Deception Family Life Harper and the University of Chicago Book II: Experience Wealth and Poverty Evelyn Dewey Another Kind of Education Morris Dewey Overworking at the University of Chicago More Publications Progressive Education The Lab School Resignation Lucy Dewey Jane Dewey Columbia Comes to the Rescue Back to Europe Starting Over The Gorky Affair Five Arcs of Activities More Publications Dewey's Teaching Style War New Restrictions The Aftermath The Polish Project Alexander's Influence on Dewey A Philadelphia Story Dewey's Interest in Poland Book III: Engagement Alice's Depression On to Japan China and "New Culture" No League and No War Sabino Dewey Idealism Corrupted Now to Turkey Then to Mexico Losing Alice Dewey Among the Soviets Three More Books The Gifford Lectures Enjoying Life Again Dewey Turns Seventy The Stock Market Crash and Its Aftermath Dewey's Political Philosophy Dewey's Interest in the Arts The Last Educational Mission Leon Trotsky Dewey's Logic Dewey and Valuation Dewey's Eightieth Birthday Celebration Education and Freedom Bertrand Russell More Controversies Dewey's Views of Education After the War John and Roberta The Last Birthday Celebration The End Last Words Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Based on original sources, notably the vast collection of unpublished papers in the Center for Dewey Studies, this book tells the full story of the life and times of the eminent American philosopher, pragmatist, education reformer, and man of letters. His philosophy, Pragmatism, has been the distinctive American philosophy during the last fifty years and his work on education is still influential today.

About the Author

Jay Martin has written and edited twenty-one books, including authoritative biographies of Nathanael West, Henry Miller and Conrad Aiken; the standard history of American literature 1865-1914; a key psychoanalytic work on "fictive personality"; and autobiographical novels about the U.S.S.R. and the time he spent as a Buddhist monk in China. Formerly Leo S. Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California, he is currently Edward S. Gould Professor of Humanities, former director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies of the Modern World, professor of government, and founder of the Questions of Civilization Program at Claremont McKenna College. He lives in Claremont, CA.

Reviews

"Martin's biography is carved out of fresh wood.... Classical American philosophy, which held much sway in the cultural birth of this country in the post-Civil War decades, is making a comeback, and Martin's biography tells the story of perhaps its most distinguished representative." - Roger Ames, University of Hawaii