The undiscovered Dewey : religion, morality, and the ethos of democracy / Melvin L. Rogers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogers, Melvin L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

Dewey, John.

Physical Description:

xxi, 328 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2009]

Contents:

Introduction

Dewey and the problem of intellectual retrieval

Avoiding the criticism : Dewey's Darwinian enlightenment

Redirection : religious certainty and the quest for meaning

The plan of this book

Part I: From certainty to contingency

Protestant self-assertion and spiritual sickness

Dewey's evasion of Protestant self-assertion and spiritual sickness

Darwin, science, and the moral economy of self and society

Hodge and the problem of human agency in the wake of evolution

Reconciliation and the quest for certainty

Dewey and the meaningfulness of modern life

Agency and inquiry after Darwin

Inquiry and phronēsis : Dewey's modified Aristotelianism

Theory, practice, and the quest for certainty

The experience of living : action and the primacy of contingency

Contingency and the place of intelligent action

Part II: Religion, the moral life, and democracy

Faith and democratic piety

Democratic self-reliance : Emerson, Dewey, and Niebuhr

Reading A common faith

Within the space of moral reflection

The moral life and the place of conflict

The expanded self : deliberation, imagination, and sympathy

The tragic self : deliberation and conflict

Constraining elites and managing power

The danger of political pessimism : between Lippmann and Wolin

Employing and legitimizing power

The permanence of contingency : on the precarious and stable public.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-318) and index.

ISBN:

9780231144865

0231144865

9780231516167

0231516169

OCLC:

226360283