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The gleam of light : moral perfectionism and education in Dewey and Emerson / Naoko Saito.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saito, Naoko.
- Series:
- American philosophy series ; no. 16.
- American philosophy series, 1073-2764 ; no. 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Perfection.
- Education--Philosophy.
- Education.
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
- Dewey, John.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press ; [London : Eurospan, distributor], 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Saito reads Dewey's idea of progressive education through the lens of Emersonian moral perfectionism. She elucidates a spiritual and aesthetic dimension to Dewey's notion of growth, one considerably richer than what Dewey alone presents in his typically scientific terminology.
- Contents:
- In search of light in democracy and education: Deweyan growth in an age of nihilism
- Dewey between Hegel and Darwin
- Emerson's voice: Dewey beyond Hegel and Darwin
- Emersonian moral perfectionism: gaining from the closeness between Dewey and Emerson
- Dewey's Emersonian view of ends
- Growth and the social reconstruction of criteria: gaining from the distance between Dewey and Emerson
- The gleam of light: reconstruction toward holistic growth
- The gleam of light lost: transcending the tragic with Dewey after Emerson
- The rekindling of the gleam of light: toward perfectionist education.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-3572-6
- 0-8232-4792-9
- 0-8232-2464-3
- 1-4294-7886-1
- OCLC:
- 156248357
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