The later works, 1925-1953

Author(s)

• Dewey, John
• Boydston, Jo Ann
• Baysinger, Patricia
• Levine, Barbara
• Simon, Harriet Furst
• Walsh, Bridget A.
• Sharpe, Anne
• Poulos, Kathleen
• McDermott, John J. (John Joseph)
• Cahn, Steven M.
• Sleeper, R. W.
• Feuer, Lewis Samuel
• Lavine, Thelma Z.
• Field, Richard W.
• Hook, Sidney

Bibliographic Information

The later works, 1925-1953

John Dewey ; edited by Jo Ann Boydston ; associate textual editors, Patricia Baysinger, Barbara Levine ; with an introduction by Sidney Hook ; with a new introduction by John Dewey ; edited by Joseph Ratner

Southern Illinois University Press , Feffer & Simons, c1981-c1990

• v. 1. 1925
• v. 2. 1925-1927
• v. 3. 1927-1928
• v. 4. 1929
• v. 5. 1929-1930
• v. 6. 1931-1932
• v. 7. 1932
• v. 8. 1933
• v. 9. 1933-1934
• v. 10. 1934
• v. 11. 1935-1937
• v. 12. 1938
• v. 13. 1938-1939
• v. 14. 1939-1941
• v. 15. 1942-1948
• v. 16. 1949-1952
• v. 17. 1885-1953

Note

Textual editors and writers of introductions vary from volume to volume

Continues The middle works, 1899-1924

V. 4-17 have imprint: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press

V. 2: Textual editor, Bridget A. Walsh, with an introduction by James Gouinlock -- v. 3: Textual editor, Patricia Baysinger, with an introduction by David Sidorsky -- v. 4: Textual editor, Harriet Furst Simon, with an introduction by Stephen Toulmin -- v. 5: Textual editor, Kathleen E. Poulos, with an introduction by Paul Kurtz -- v. 6: Textual editor, Anne Sharpe, with an introduction by Sidney Ratner -- v. 7: Textual editor, Barbara Levine, with an introduction by Abraham Edel, Elizabeth Folwer

V. 8: Textual editor, Bridget A. Walsh, associate textual editor, Harriet Furst Simon, with an introduction by Richard Rorty -- v. 9: Textual editor, Anne Sharpe, associate textual editor, Patricia Baysinger, with an introduction by Milton R. Konvitz -- v. 10: Textual editor, Harriet Furst Simon, with an introduction by Abraham Kaplan -- v. 11: Textual editor, Kathleen E. Poulos, associate textual editors: Barbara Levine, Anne Sharpe, Harriet Furst Simon, with an introduction by John J. McDermott -- v. 12: Textual editor, Kathleen Poulos, with an introduction by Ernest Nagel -- v. 13: Textual editor, Barbara Levine, with an introduction by Steven M. Cahn -- v. 14: Textual editor, Anne Sharpe, with an introduction by R.W. Sleeper -- v. 15: With an introduction by Lewis S. Feuer -- v. 16: Textual editor, Harriet Furst Simon, with an introduction by T.Z. Lavine -- v. 17: Textual editor, Barbara Levine, assistant textual editor, Richard W. Field, with an introduction by Sidney Hook

Includes bibliographies and indexes

Contents of Works

• v. 1. Experience and nature
• v. 2. The public and its problems
• v. 4. The quest for certainty
• v. 5. The sources of a science of education
• Individualism, old and new
• Construction and criticism
• v. 6. Context and thought
• The way out of educational confusion
• American education past and future
• The place of minor parties in the American scene and their relation to the present situation
• Democracy joins the unemployed
• v. 7. Ethics
• v. 8. How we think
• v. 9. A common faith
• v. 10 Art as experience
• v. 11. Liberalism and social action
• v. 12. Logic : the theory of inquiry
• v. 13. Experience and education
• Freedom and culture
• Theory of valuation
• v. 16. Knowing and the know

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1. 1925 ISBN 9780809309863

Description

John Dewey’s Experience and Nature has been considered the fullest expression of his mature philosophy since its eagerly awaited publication in 1925. Irwin Edman wrote at that time that “with monumental care, detail and completeness, Professor Dewey has in this volume revealed the metaphysical heart that beats its unvarying alert tempo through all his writings, whatever their explicit themes.” In his introduction to this volume, Sidney Hook points out that “Dewey’s Experience and Nature is both the most suggestive and most difficult of his writings.” The meticulously edited text published here as the first vol­ume in the series The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925–1953 spans that entire period in Dewey’s thought by including two important and previously unpublished documents from the book’s history: Dewey’s unfinished new introduction written between 1947 and 1949, edited by the late Joseph Ratner, and Dewey’s unedited final draft of that introduction written the year before his death. In the intervening years Dewey realized the impossibility of making his use of the word “experience” understood. He wrote in his 1951 draft for a new introduction: “Were I to write (or rewrite) Experience and Nature today I would entitle the book Culture and Nature and the treatment of specific subject-matters would be correspondingly modified. I would abandon the term ‘experience’ because of my growing realiza­tion that the historical obstacles which prevented understand­ing of my use of ‘experience’ are, for all practical purposes, insurmountable. I would substitute the term ‘culture’ because with its meanings as now firmly established it can fully and freely carry my philosophy of experience.”

Volume

v. 2. 1925-1927 ISBN 9780809311316

Description

With the exception of Experience and Nature, (Volume 1of the Later Works), this volume contains all of Dewey's writ ings for 1925and 1926, as well as his 1927 book, The Public and Its Problems. A Modern Language Association's Com mittee on Scholarly Editions textual edi tion. The first essay in this volume, "The Development of American Pragmatism," is perhaps Dewey's best-known article of these years, emphasizing the uniquely American origins of his own philosophi cal innovations. Other essays focus on Dewey's continuing investigation of the "nature of intelligent conduct," as, for example, his debate with David Wight Prall on the underpinnings of value, his study of sense-perception, and his support for outlawing of war. Also appearing here are Dewey's final articles on the culture of the developing world, written for the New Republic after his travels to China, Turkey, and Mexico.

Volume

v. 3. 1927-1928 ISBN 9780809311323

Description

All of Dewey's writings for 1927and 1928 with the exception of The Public and Its Problems, which appears in Volume 2, A Modern Language Associ ation's Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. These essays are, as Sidorsky says in his Introduction, "framed, in great mea sure, by those two poles of his philo sophical interest: looking backward, in a sense, to the defense of naturalistic metaphysics and moving forward to the justification and to the implications for practice of an empirical theory." Dewey's five essays on education are evidence of his continued interest in that field. Among them is the frequently quoted "Why IAm a Member of the Teachers Union," which is still used by the American Federation of Teachers in its recruiting efforts. Other highlights of this volume include the famous ex change between George Santayana and Dewey on Experience and Nature; an im passioned condemnation of the mis carriage of justice Dewey saw in the Sacco-Vanzetti trial; and a series of six articles on the Soviet Union based on Dewey's trip to that country in 1928.

Volume

v. 4. 1929 ISBN 9780809311620

Description

This volume provides an authoritative edition of Dewey's The Quest for Cer tainty: A Study of the Relation Between Knowledge and Action. The book is made up of the Gifford Lectures deliv ered April- May 1929 at the University of Edinburgh. Writing to Sidney Hook, Dewey described this work as " a criti cism of philosophy as attempting to at tain theoretical certainty." In the Philo sophical Review Max C. Otto later elaborated: " Mr. Dewey wanted, so far as lay in his power, to crumble into dust, once and for all, ' the chief fortress of the classic philosophical tradition."

Volume

v. 5. 1929-1930 ISBN 9780809311637

Description

With the exception of The Quest for Cer tainty (Volume 4) this fifth volume brings together Dewey's writings for the 1929-1930 period. During this time Dewey published 4 books and 50 articles on philosophical, educational, political, and social issues. His philosophical essays include "What Humanism Means to Me" and "What I Believe," both of which express Dewey's faith in man's potentialities and intel ligence, and a lively Journal of Philoso phy exchange with Ernest Nagel, Wil liam Ernest Hocking, C. I. Lewis, and F. J.E. Woodbridge. Educational writings include The Sources of a Science of Education. The contents of this volume re flect Dewey's increasing involvement in social and political problems.

Volume

v. 6. 1931-1932 ISBN 9780809311996

Description

Except for Dewey's and James H. Tufts' 1932 Ethics (Volume 7 of The Later Works), this volume brings together Dewey's writings for 1931-1932. The Great Depression presented John Dewey and the American people with a series of economic, political, and social crises in 1931 and 1932 that are reflected in most of the 86 items in this volume, even in philosophical essays such as "Human Nature." As Sidney Ratner points out in his Introduction, Dewey's interest in international peace is fea tured in the writings in this volume.

Volume

v. 7. 1932 ISBN 9780809312009

Description

Introduction by Abraham Edel and Elizabeth Flower This seventh volume provides an au thoritative edition of Dewey and James H. Tufts' 1932 Ethics. Dewey and Tufts state that the book's aim is: "To induce a habit of thoughtful consideration, of envisaging the full meaning and consequences of individual conduct and social policies," insisting throughout that ethics must be con stantly concerned with the changing problems of daily life.

Volume

v. 8. 1933 ISBN 9780809312467

Table of Contents

v. 1. 1925 -- v. 2. 1925-1927 -- v. 3. 1927-1928 -- v. 4. 1929 -- v. 5. 1929-1930 -- v. 6. 1931-1932 -- v. 7. 1932 -- v. 8. 1933 -- v. 9. 1933-1934 -- v. 10. 1934 -- v. 11. 1935-1937 -- v. 12. 1938 -- v. 13. 1938-1939 -- v. 14. 1939 -- v. 15. 1942-1948 -- v. 16. 1949-1952 -- v. 17. 1885-1953.

Volume

v. 9. 1933-1934 ISBN 9780809312658

Description

This ninth volume in The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925--1953, brings together sixty items from 1933 and 1934, including Dewey's Terry Lec tures at Yale University, published as A Common Faith. In his introduction, Milton R. Konvitz concludes that ACommon Faith remains a provocative book, an intellectual 'teaser, ' an essay at religious philoso phy which no philosopher can wholly bypass." Dewey concentrated much of his writing in 1933 and 1934 on issues arising from the economic crises of the Great Depression. In the early 1930s Com munist activity in the New York Teachers Union in creased. The Report of the Special Grievance Committee of the Teachers Union is published in this volume, as is Dewey's impromptu address, "On the Grievance Committee's Report," made when he presented that report. Rounding out the volume are eighteen arti cles from the People's Lobby Bulletin.

Volume

v. 10. 1934 ISBN 9780809312665

Table of Contents

v. 1. 1925 -- v. 2. 1925-1927 -- v. 3. 1927-1928 -- v. 4. 1929 -- v. 5. 1929-1930 -- v. 6. 1931-1932 -- v. 7. 1932 -- v. 8. 1933 -- v. 9. 1933-1934 -- v. 10. 1934 -- v. 11. 1935-1937 -- v. 12. 1938 -- v. 13. 1938-1939 -- v. 14. 1939 -- v. 15. 1942-1948 -- v. 16. 1949-1952 -- v. 17. 1885-1953.

Volume

v. 11. 1935-1937 ISBN 9780809312672

Description

This volume includes ninety-two items from 1935, 1936, and 1937, including Dewey's 1935 Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia, published as Liberalism and Social Action. In essay after essay Dewey analyzed, criticized, and reevaluated liberalism. When his controversial Liberalism and Social Action appeared, asking whether it was still possible to be a liberal, Horace M. Kallen wrote that Dewey "restates in the language and under the conditions of his times what Jefferson's Declaration of Independence affirmed in the language and under the conditions of his." The diverse nature of the writings belies their underlying unity: some are technical philosophy; other philosophical articles shade into social and political themes; social and political issues permeate the educational articles, which in turn involve Dewey's philosophical ideas.

Volume

v. 12. 1938 ISBN 9780809312689

Description

Heralded as "the crowning work of a great career," Logic: The Theory of Inquiry was widely reviewed. To Evander Bradley McGilvary, the work assured De wey "a place among the world's great logicians." William Gruen thought "No treatise on logic ever written has had as direct and vital an impact on social life as Dewey's will have." Paul Weiss called it "the source and inspiration of a new and powerful movement." Irwin Edman said of it, "Most phi losophers write postscripts; Dewey has made a program. His Logic is a new charter for liberal intelligence." Ernest Nagel called the Logic an im pressive work. Its unique virtue is to bring fresh illumination to its subject by stressing the roles logical principles and concepts have in achieving the ob jectives of scientific inquiry."

Volume

v. 13. 1938-1939 ISBN 9780809314256

Description

This volume includes all Dewey's writings for 1938 except for Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (Volume 12 of The Later Works), as well as his 1939 Freedom and Culture, Theory of Valuation, and two items from Intelligence in the Modern World. Freedom and Culture presents, as Steven M. Cahn points out, "the essence of his philosophical position: a commitment to a free society, critical intelligence, and the education required for their advance."

Volume

v. 15. 1942-1948 ISBN 9780809315352

Description

This volume republishes sixty-two of Dewey's writings from the years 1942 to 1948; four other items are published here for the first time. A focal point of this volume is Dewey's introduction to his collective volume Problems of Men. Exchanges in the Journal of Philosophy with Donald C. Mackay, Philip Blair Rice, and with Alexander Meiklejohn in Fortune appear here, along with Dewey's letters to editors of various publications and his forewords to colleagues' books. Because 1942 was the centenary of the birth of William James, four articles about James are also included in this volume.

Volume

v. 16. 1949-1952 ISBN 9780809315376

Description

Typescripts, essays, and an authoritative edition of Knowing and the Known, Dewey's collaborative work with Arthur F. Bentley. In an illuminating Introduction T. Z. Lavine defines the collaboration's three goals-- the construction of a new language for behavioral inquiry, a critique of formal logicians, in defense of Dewey's Logic, and a critique of logical positivism. In Dewey's words: Largely due to Bentley, I've finally got the nerve inside of me to do what I should have done years ago. What Is It to Be a Linguistic Sign or Name? and Values, Valuations, and Social Facts, ' both written in 1945, are published here for the first time.

Volume

v. 17. 1885-1953 ISBN 9780809316618

Description

This is the final textual volume in The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882- 1953, published in 3 series comprising 37 volumes: The Early Works, 1882- 1898 (5 vols.); The Middle Works, 1899- 1924 (15 vols.); The Later Works, 1925- 1953 (17 vols.). Volume 17 contains Dewey's writings discovered after publication of the appropriate volume of The Collected Works and spans most of Dewey's publishing life. There are 83 items in this volume, 24 of which have not been previously published. Among works highlighted in this volume are 10 " Educational Lectures before Brigham Young Academy," early essays " War's Social Results" and " The Problem of Secondary Education after the War," and the previously unpublished " The Russian School System."

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• NCID: BA00301113
• ISBN:
  • 0809309866
  • 0809311313
  • 0809311321
  • 0809311623
  • 0809311631
  • 0809311992
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• LCCN: 80027285
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Carbondale,London
• Pages/Volumes: 17 v.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B945
  • DC19 : 191
  • NDC8 : 133.9
  • NDC8 : 133.96
  • NDC7 : 133.96
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Philosophy