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OC These essays build a valuable, if virtual, bridge between the thought of John Dewey and that of a host of modern European philosophers. They invite us to entertain a set of imagined conversations among the mighty dead that no doubt would have intrigued Dewey and each of the interlocutors gathered here.OCOOCoRobert Westbrook, author of "John Dewey and American Democracy and/or Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth." "John Dewey and Continental Philosophy" provides a rich sampling of exchanges that could have taken place long ago between the traditions of American pragmatism and continental philosophy had the lines of communication been more open between Dewey and his European contemporaries. Since they were not, Paul Fairfield and thirteen of his colleagues seek to remedy the situation by bringing the philosophy of Dewey into conversation with several currents in continental philosophical thought, from post-Kantian idealism and the work of Friedrich Nietzsche to twentieth-century phenomenology, hermeneutics, and poststructuralism. "John Dewey and Continental Philosophy" demonstrates some of the many connections and opportunities for cross-traditional thinking that

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Author

Paul Fairfield (editor)

Publisher

Southern Illinois University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809333042

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities