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American philosopher John Dewey considered all human endeavors to be one with the natural world. In his writings, particularly Art as Experience (1934), Dewey insists on the primacy of the environment in aesthetic experience. Dewey’s conception of environment includes both the natural and the man-made. The World in Which We Occur highlights this notion in order to define “pragmatist ecology,” a practice rooted in the interface of the cultural and the natural. Neil Browne finds this to be a significant feature of some of the most important ecological writing of the last century. To fully understand human involvement in the natural world, Browne argues that disciplinary boundaries must be opened, with profound implications for the practice of democracy. The degradation of the physical environment and democratic decay, for Browne, are rooted in the same problem: our persistent belief that humans are somehow separate from their physical environment. Browne probes the work of a number of major American writers through the lens of Dewey’s philosophy. Among other texts examined are John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra (1911); Sea of Cortez (1941) by John Steinbeck and Edward Ricketts; Rachel Carson’s three books about the sea, Under the Sea-Wind (1941), The Sea Around Us (1951), and The Edge of the Sea (1955); John Haines’s The Stars, the Snow, the Fire (1989); Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams (1986); and Terry Tempest Williams’s Refuge (1991). Together, these texts—with their combinations of scientific observation and personal meditation—challenge the dichotomies that we have become accustomed and affirm the principles of a pragmatist ecology, one in which ecological and democratic values go hand in hand.
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The continuing relevance of John Dewey : reflections on aesthetics, morality, science, and society
The present volume encapsulates the contemporary scholarship on John Dewey and shows the place of Dewey's thought on the philosophical arena. The authors are among the leading specialists in the philosophy of John Dewey from universities across the US and in Europe.
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John Dewey's philosophy of education : an introduction and recontextualization for our times
The comprehensive philosophical underpinnings of John Dewey's theory of education are analyzed, concentrating on oven-overlooked primary texts, with the authors connecting his philosophy with six recent and influential positions in late 20th century and early 21st century humanities, including those of Bauman, Foucault, Derrida, Levinas, and Rorty.
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Democracy and the intersection of religion and traditions : the reading of John Dewey's understanding of democracy and education
\"How are ideas about education and democracy configured and reconfigured as they travel? Democracy and the Intersection of Religion and Traditions looks at the work of John Dewey, the renowned philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, and the ways in which his educational ideas and democratic ideals have been configured and reconfigured, adopted, and interpreted in different historical and cultural spaces.\" \"Using case studies of China, Spain, and the American Interdenominational Committee on Cooperation in Latin America, the four authors explore the ways in which each alternative reading of Dewey's ideas was nested in the regionally dominant ideologies that preceded the arrival of his work and show that interpretations of his work developed differently in each setting, as a means of adapting to local needs.\" \"Democracy and the Intersection of Religion and Traditions challenges us to think in new ways about how ideas are configured in historical contexts and how their interpretation is mediated by specific beliefs and historical circumstances.\"--BOOK JACKET.
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Democracy and the intersection of religion and traditions
An innovative approach to the ways in which a major philiosopher's ideas have been configured and incorporated in different countries and contexts.
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Teachers, leaders, and schools
This book includes many of the most accessible and insightful articles on education written by John Dewey. The essays are selected largely but not exclusively for the accessibility to future and practicing educators, relevancy to current issues that educators face today, and breadth of information offered about Dewey’s overall educational theory.
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Imagining Dewey
Features productive (re)interpretations of 21st century experience using the lens of Dewey's Art as Experience, through putting an array of international philosophers, educators, and artists-researchers in transactional dialogue and on equal footing in an academic text.
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