The Education of John Dewey
A Biography
$60.80
- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2024
Summary
During John Dewey’s lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, conventionally identified by the shorthand word “Pragmatism,” has been the distinctive American philosophy of the last fifty years. His work on education is famous worldwide and is still influential today, anticipating as it did the ascendance in contemporary American pedagogy of multiculturalism an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780231216647 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0231216645 |
| Author: | Jay Martin |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Imprint: | Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 876g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
Martin’s biography is a good, well-paced read. – Richard Rorty * New York Times Book Review *
This will be the new standard biography of the great reformer’s life. – Gilbert Taylor * Booklist *
Sturdy, thoughtful… solid overall. * Kirkus Reviews *
Truly terrific…clearly comprehensive; it is the definitive biography of John Dewey. – Jo Ann Boydston
The major and minor facts of Dewey’s long life… are engagingly presented. In addition, Martin has done a good job of researching some pertinent information about Dewey’s life not found in the only other detailed biography…. Recommended. * Library Journal *
Martin’s readable style and instinct for apt quotation—many new even to Dewey scholars—keeps his information flowing… The Education of John Dewey most pleases as an epic tale of an immortal multitasker, told with just the right mix of philosophical explanation, personal drama and historical context. – Carlin Romano * Knight Ridder Newspapers *
Martin [has] written [an] excellent new biography… [that] aims to represent Dewey as an individual who was a thinker and reformer of international public influence… Martin’s book will interest anyone seeking a personal biography of Dewey… Highly recommended. * Choice *
Jay Martin
Jay Martin has written and edited twenty-one books, including authoritative biographies of Nathanael West, Henry Miller and Conrad Aiken; the standard history of American literature 1865-1914; a key psychoanalytic work on “fictive personality”; and autobiographical novels about the U.S.S.R. and the time he spent as a Buddhist monk in China. Formerly Leo S. Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California, he is currently Edward S. Gould Professor of Humanities, former director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies of the Modern World, professor of government, and founder of the Questions of Civilization Program at Claremont McKenna College. He lives in Claremont, CA.
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