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John Dewey and American Democracy (Cornell Paperbacks) ペーパーバック – 1993/2/1
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Over a career spanning American history from the 1880s to the 1950s, John Dewey sought not only to forge a persuasive argument for his conviction that "democracy is freedom" but also to realize his democratic ideals through political activism. Widely considered modern America's most important philosopher, Dewey made his views known both through his writings and through such controversial episodes as his leadership of educational reform at the turn of the century; his support of American intervention in World War I and his leading role in the Outlawry of War movement after the war; and his participation in both radical and anti-communist politics in the 1930s and 40s. Robert B. Westbrook reconstructs the evolution of Dewey's thought and practice in this masterful intellectual biography, combining readings of his major works with an engaging account of key chapters in his activism. Westbrook pays particular attention to the impact upon Dewey of conversations and debates with contemporaries from William James and Reinhold Niebuhr to Jane Addams and Leon Trotsky. Countering prevailing interpretations of Dewey's contribution to the ideology of American liberalism, he discovers a more unorthodox Deweya deviant within the liberal community who was steadily radicalized by his profound faith in participatory democracy. Anyone concerned with the nature of democracy and the future of liberalism in Americaincluding educators, moral and social philosophers, social scientists, political theorists, and intellectual and cultural historianswill find John Dewey and American Democracy indispensable reading.
- 本の長さ570ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社Cornell Univ Pr
- 発売日1993/2/1
- 対象読者年齢18 歳以上
- 寸法15.27 x 3.43 x 23.04 cm
- ISBN-100801481112
- ISBN-13978-0801481116
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A comprehensive intellectual biography of the great democratic theorist and activist.... Westbrook's scholarship is definitive, and he succeeds in defending Dewey's work against most of his important critics, and reminding us that Dewey's concerns and ambitions are still relevant to today's world.
-- "Kirkus Reviews"A major event in the history of American letters.... This book should last as the definitive word on Dewey for at least as long as Dewey lived.
--Alan Wolfe "Washington Post Book World"An exceptionally intelligent, rigorous, and thorough book. Westbrook's call for a renewed appreciation of Dewey's relevance is strengthened by great learning and conviction.
--Lewis Menand "New York Review of Books"Far and away the best book on Dewey yet. Westbrook's intellectual biography is scholarship at its finest, a very unusual combination of vast learning, dialectical acuity and literary skill.... This book will do a great deal to make Dewey more available and plausible, and to help his writings shape the imagination of a new generation of Americans.
--Richard Rorty "New Leader"Neither a straight biography nor a narrow work of scholarship, John Dewey and American Democracy offers instead a briskly readable narrative of Dewey's lifework, focusing on his advocacy of democracy.... Westbrook's reconstruction of Dewey's evolving thought is detailed, sympathetic, and lucid.
-- "The Nation"Westbrook provides a vigorous, convincing, and readable analysis of the major episodes in Dewey's career, including his conflicts with such other prominent, public intellectuals as Randolph Bourne, Walter Lippmann, Lewis Mumford, and Reinhold Niebuhr.
--David A. Hollinger "The Atlantic"著者について
Robert B. Westbrook is Professor of History at the University of Rochester. He is the author of John Dewey and American Democracy, also from Cornell, winner of the Merle Curti Award. He is also the author of Why We Fought: Forging American Obligations in World War II and the coeditor of In Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship.
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- 出版社 : Cornell Univ Pr; Reprint版 (1993/2/1)
- 発売日 : 1993/2/1
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 570ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0801481112
- ISBN-13 : 978-0801481116
- 対象読者年齢 : 18 歳以上
- 寸法 : 15.27 x 3.43 x 23.04 cm
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Westbrook's explanation of Dewey's effort to change the older meaning of Liberal (freedom to avoid power) to Liberal (freedom to use power) was enlightening. Present discussion in America uses Dewey's meaning, while Europe does not. Fascinating!
This work does not read as a novel, closer to a philosophy textbook. Nevertheless, Westbrook succeeds in simplifying much (although not all) of Dewey's obscurity.
The change from a theological mind to a scientific one, occurred in Dewey and America together. Therefore his story reveals more than just the change in one scholar, but the development of a culture.
''By rationalizing religion and spiritualizing science, absolute idealists hoped to successfully arbitrate the conflict between science and religion without sacrificing the essential interests of either.'' (21)
Prologue
PART ONE A Social Gospel (1882–1904)
1 The Hegelian Bacillus
2 Organic Democracy
3 Chicago Pragmatism
4 No Mean City
PART TWO Progressive Democracy (1904–1918)
5 Reconstructing Philosophy
6 Democracy and Education
7 The Politics of War
PART THREE Toward the Great Contrary to this prevailing consensus Community (1918–1929)
8 The Politics of Peace
9 The Phantom Public
10 Philosophy and Democracy
PART FOUR Democrat Emeritus (1929–1952)
11 Consummatory Experience
12 Socialist Democracy
13 Their Morals and Ours
14 Keeping the Common Faith
Epilogue
Dewey's influence is noted -
''By virtue of the role Dewey purportedly played in the shaping of modern liberalism, many have claimed for him powers second to none among American intellectuals. According to Henry Steele Commager, Dewey became “the guide, the mentor, and the conscience of the American people: it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that for a generation no major issue was clarified until Dewey had spoken.”
''His most relentless critic among the radical revisionist historians of education, Clarence Karier, has argued that “the pragmatic ethic which Dewey propounded free of rigid principles provided the moral dexterity so necessary for the intellectuals who became the servants of power within the liberal state in twentieth century America.”
''This consensus regarding Dewey’s influence was perhaps best summed up in the comment of Morris Cohen, one of Dewey’s sharpest critics, that “if there could be such an office as that of national philosopher, no one else could be properly mentioned for it.”
This was eye opening. I recognize many current opinions in the ideas that Dewey either introduced or developed. Some -
“The predicament of liberal democracy is that liberalism denies the logic of democracy and democracy denies the logic of liberalism, but neither can exist without the other.”
Another -
''Socially, democracy has for most liberals come to mean the provision of a minimal level of welfare to every member of a society through a corporate capitalist economy regulated by a centralized state directed by administrative experts, which, even when it works, betrays an identification of the good with the goods.''
Are material 'goods' all the good there is? Morality? Conscience?
Continuing puzzle -
''Whereas Dewey urged maximum participation by a responsible public in the direction of human affairs, other liberals have sought to maximize the responsibility of powerful elites while at the same time insulating these elites from most of the pressures of the benighted “masses.” Still a challenge.
What about Christianity?
''History was defined as “the process by which a divine will, determined by reason, has articulated wants, desires, and ideas, by making them organic to its own reproduction.” Thoroughgoing democracy, Dewey had argued in 1888, was the end toward which this progressive history was moving, for the idea of democracy represented “a society in which the distinction between the spiritual and the secular has ceased, and as in Greek theory, as in the Christian theory of the Kingdom of God, the church and the state, the divine and the human organization of society are one.” (76)
Dewey started his philosophical life as Hegel's disciple. This gave him keen insight into the German soul. -
''It was the post-Kantian idealists, most notably Fichte and Hegel, who put the imprimatur of philosophy on this perversion of the categorical imperative. Unhappy with Kant’s separation of the noumenal and the phenomenal, they joined the two realms and subjected the empirical world to the will of Absolute spirit embodied in the commands of its agent, the State. As a result, Dewey wrote, since the early nineteenth century Germans had been “instructed by a long line of philosophers that it is the business of ideal right to gather might to itself in order that it may cease to be merely ideal.''
Dewey blames Kant, Fichte and Hegel for German devotion to the Prussian State. Others agree, including Isaiah Berlin. Ironically, Dewey spent decades preaching a similar attitude toward ''Democracy''.
''The State represents exactly this incarnation of ideal law and right in effective might”. Since the State was “God on earth,” patriotism was a religious obligation, and a willingness to engage in the sacrifice of war was “the final seal of devotion to the extension of the kingdom of the Absolute on earth”.
This was the German view. Then later Dewey -
''When Wilson declared that this would be a “people’s war,” a war to make the world safe for democracy, Dewey jumped on the bandwagon. “Ever since President Wilson asked for a breaking of relations with Germany and afterwards for war against that country, more and more as he has stated why we are in this war,” Dewey said, “I have been a thorough and complete sympathizer with the part played by this country in this war and I have wished to see the resources of this country used for its successful prosecution. As has been said over and over again, this is not merely a war of armies, this is a war of peoples.”
Not just war, but 'Nation against Nation and Kingdom against Kingdom.'
Westbrook provides more than just Dewey's thought. He presents other thinkers - for example -
''This situation had brought some secular intellectuals to the brink of existential despair, perhaps most evident in Joseph Wood Krutch’s book The Modern Temper (1929), a widely discussed meditation on the crisis of belief engendered by modern science published the same year as Dewey’s Quest for Certainty. Few captured better than Krutch the apparently stark consequences of the triumphs of scientific knowledge and the failures of religion and philosophy to provide human values with the certainty demanded by the metaphysical paradigm established by the Greeks:
''We went to science in search of light, not merely upon the nature of matter, but upon the nature of man as well, and though that which we have received may be light of a sort, it is not adapted to our eyes and is not anything by which we can see. Since thought began we have groped in the dark among shadowy shapes, doubtfully aware of landmarks looming uncertainly here and there—of moral principles, human values, aims, and ideals.''
Science did not give the ''light'' that was expected!
''We hoped for an illumination in which they would at last stand clearly and unmistakably forth, but instead they appear even less certain and less substantial than before—mere fancies and illusions generated by nerve actions that seem terribly remote from anything we can care about or based upon relativities that accident can shift.''
Scientific certainty does not exist.
''We had been assured that many troublesome shadows would flee away, that superstitious fears, irrational repugnances, and all manner of bad dreams would disappear. And so in truth many have. But we never supposed that most of the things we cherished would prove equally unsubstantial, that all the aims we thought we vaguely perceived, all the values we pursued, and all the principles we clung to were but similar shadows, and that either the light of science is somehow deceptive or the universe, emotionally and spiritually, a vast emptiness.'' (353)
Scientific light 'is somehow deceptive'!
Dewey was a philosopher. His effort to connect religion, science, history, reason, developed during his lifetime. Many of these opinions are still in the mind of many. So are the puzzling questions.
Heute, da das Wort »Demokratie« in der politischen Debatte in den USA zu einer bloßen Hülse verkommen ist und das PNAC und andere Vordenker der Bush-Regierung einem fröhlichen Elitismus unter dem Primat der Wirtschaft huldigen, könnten Deweys Gedanken zur Demokratie als *Lebensform* geradezu revolutionär wirken - wenn sie denn (wieder) zur Kenntnis genommen würden. Insofern sind Westbrooks 1993 veröffentlichtem Buch heute mehr denn je zahlreiche Leser zu wünschen, die dann hoffentlich auch Dewey-Leser werden.
Westbrook guides us through every stage of Dewey's long and productive life, reflecting on all of the major works and their implications for his developing conception of democracy. . His judgment is sound, though of course the huge volume of literature since, much of it inspired by this book, has qualified and added to his account.