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The Gleam of Light : Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson / Naoko Saito.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saito, Naoko, Author.
- Series:
- American philosophy series ; Number 16.
- American Philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
- Dewey, John.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
- Perfection.
- Education--Philosophy.
- Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 210 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- LaVergne : Fordham University Press, 2018.
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Saito Naoko : Naoko Saito is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education, University of Kyoto. She is the author of The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson.Cavell Stanley : Stanley Cavell is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Harvard University. His recent publications include A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises; Philosophical Passages: Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin, and Derrida; Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life and Emerson's Transcendental Etudes.Naoko Saito (Author) Naoko Saito is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education, University of Kyoto. She is the author of The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson.Stanley Cavell (Foreword By) Stanley Cavell is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Harvard University. His recent publications include A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises; Philosophical Passages: Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin, and Derrida; Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life and Emerson's Transcendental Etudes.
- Summary:
- In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology andprocedures of standardization and quantification. Such attempts to make all aspects of practice transparent and subject to systematic accounting lack sensitivity to the invisible and the silent, to something in the humancondition that cannot readily be expressed in an either-or form. Seeking alternatives to such trends, Saito readsDewey’s idea of progressive education through the lens of Emersonian moral perfectionism (to borrow a term coined by Stanley Cavell). 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:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- one. in search of light in democracy and education
- two. dewey between hegel and darwin
- three. emerson’s voice
- five. dewey’s emersonian view of ends
- six. growth and the social reconstruction of criteria
- seven. the gleam of light
- eight. the gleam of light lost
- nine. the rekindling of the gleam of light
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Title from eBook information screen..
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-8525-1
- OCLC:
- 1178769728
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