{"product_id":"the-middle-works-of-john-john-dewey-9780809328079","title":"The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 12, 1899 - 1924: Essays, Miscellany, and Reconstruction in Philosophy Published During 1920 Volume 12","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of all of Dewey's writings\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003efor 1920\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ewith the excep­tion of \u003ci\u003eLetters from China and Japan. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nineteen items collected here, including his major work, \u003ci\u003eReconstruction in Philosophy, \u003c\/i\u003eevolved in the main from Dewey's travel, touring, lecturing, and teaching in Japan and China. Ralph Ross notes in his Introduction to this volume that \u003ci\u003eRecon­struction in Philosophy \u003c\/i\u003eis\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\"a radical book . . . a pugnacious book by a gentle man.\" It is in this book that Dewey summarizes his version of pragmatism, then called Instrumentalism. For Dew­ey, the pragmatist, it was people acting on the strength of in­telligence modeled on science who could find true ideas, ones \"we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify.\" Optimism pervades \u003ci\u003eReconstruction of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein keeping with Dewey's world of open possibilities, the book recognizes that the obser­vation and thought of human striving can make the difference between despair and affirmation of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seven essays on Chinese politics and social tradition that Dewey sent back from the Orient exhibit both the liveliness and the sensitive power of an insightful mind. Set against a backdrop of Japanese hegemony in China, the last days of Manchu imperi­alism, Europe's carving of China into concessions, and China's subsequent refusal to accept the terms of the Treaty of Ver­sailles, the essays were startlingly relevant in this time of Eastern turbulence and change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the National University of Peking, Dewey delivered a se­ries of lectures on \"Three Contemporary Philosophers: William James, Henri Bergson, and Bertrand Russell.\" The James and Bergson lectures are published for the first time in this volume. Dewey chose these philosophers, according to Ralph Ross, be­cause he was trying to show \"his oriental audience what he believed and hoped about man and society and was talking about those fellow philosophers who shared the same beliefs and hopes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Dewey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0809328070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780809328079\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Southern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"John Dewey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44070847348991,"sku":"9780809328079","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6b5c6d8c-ee03-4206-b8b4-3f4a8b4f7ec5.jpg?v=1685432685","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-middle-works-of-john-john-dewey-9780809328079","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}