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The Essential John Dewey: 20+ Books in One Edition

Major Writings on Pragmatism, Education, Democracy, Experience, and Social ReformBy John Dewey

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The Essential John Dewey: 20+ Books in One Edition gathers the central writings of one of American pragmatism's most influential philosophers, educators, and social critics. Spanning works such as The School and Society, Democracy and Education, Experience and Nature, Human Nature and Conduct, Art as Experience, and Freedom and Culture, the volume traces Dewey's sustained investigation of experience, inquiry, habit, democracy, education, and the relation between thought and action. His prose is analytical yet accessible, combining philosophical argument with psychological, political, and pedagogical reflection. Read in the context of early twentieth-century pragmatism and progressive education, these writings challenge inherited dualisms and present knowledge as an instrument for intelligent problem-solving and collective growth. John Dewey (1859–1952) wrote amid profound transformations in American industrial, scientific, and democratic life. His teaching at the University of Chicago and Columbia University, his engagement with experimental education, and his observations of social inequality shaped a philosophy committed to practical reform rather than abstract speculation. Influenced by Hegel, Darwin, and the developing social sciences, Dewey sought to reconcile individual freedom with communal responsibility. His educational theories emerged from direct institutional experiments, while his political writings responded to war, authoritarianism, and the crises of modern democracy. This comprehensive edition is especially valuable for readers seeking a coherent introduction to Dewey's mature thought, as well as for students of philosophy, education, political theory, and American intellectual history. Its breadth makes visible the connections among his major concerns: learning as inquiry, democracy as a way of life, art as intensified experience, and philosophy as an instrument of reconstruction. Readers may approach it selectively or follow its arguments across decades, discovering a thinker whose relevance to contemporary debates about schooling, citizenship, public reason, and social cooperation remains striking.

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1An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)

2Philosophical Works

3German Philosophy and Politics

4Preface

5I. German Philosophy: The Two Worlds

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6II. German Moral and Political Philosophy

7III. The Germanic Philosophy of History

8Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition

9Preface

10Chapter I. The Man.

11Chapter II. The Sources of His Philosophy.

12Chapter III. The Problem, and its Solution.

13Chapter IV. Locke and Leibniz.—Innate Ideas.

14Chapter V. Sensation and Experience.

15Chapter VI. The Impulses and the Will.

16Chapter VII. Matter and its Relation to Spirit.

17Chapter VIII. Material Phenomena and Their Reality.

18Chapter IX. Some Fundamental Conceptions.

19Chapter X. The Nature and Extent of Knowledge.

20Chapter XI. The Theology of Leibniz.

21Chapter XII. Criticism and Conclusion.

22Studies in Logical Theory

23Preface

24I. Thought and its Subject-Matter: The General Problem of Logical Theory

25II. Thought and its Subject-Matter: The Antecedent Conditions and Cues of the Thought-Function

26III. Thought and its Subject-Matter: The Datum of Thinking

27IV. Thought and its Subject-Matter: The Content and Object of Thought

28V. A Critical Study of Bosanquet's Theory of Judgment44

29VI. Typical Stages in the Development of Judgment

30VII. The Nature of Hypothesis

31VIII. Image and Idea in Logic

32IX. The Logic of the Pre-Socratic Philosophy87

33X. Valuation as a Logical Process (pt. 1)

34X. Valuation as a Logical Process (pt. 2)

35XI. Some Logical Aspects of Purpose (pt. 1)

36XI. Some Logical Aspects of Purpose (pt. 2)

37Interpretation of Savage Mind

38Ethics (with James Hayden Tufts)

39Preface

40Chapter I. Introduction

41Part I The Beginnings and Growth of Morality

42Chapter II. Early Group Life

43Chapter III. The Rationalizing and Socializing Agencies in Early Society

44Chapter IV. Group Morality—Customs or Mores

45Chapter V. From Custom to Conscience; From Group Morality to Personal Morality

46Chapter VI. The Hebrew Moral Development

47Chapter VII. The Moral Development of the Greeks

48CHAPTER VIII. The Modern Period

49CHAPTER IX. A General Comparison of Customary and Reflective Morality

50Part II Theory of the Moral Life

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