Brinkmann, Svend (Author)
Transaction Publishers
Physical Details: xv + 194 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English
John Dewey was an American psychologist, philosopher, educator, social critic, and political activist. John Dewey: Science for a Changing World addresses Dewey's contemporary relevance; his life and intellectual trajectory; his basic philosophical ideas, with an emphasis on his philosophy of nature; and his educational theory, which has often been misunderstood. In addition, Dewey's pragmatism and pragmatist ethics are discussed, as are some of the criticisms that can be directed at them. Throughout the book, Dewey's ideas are related to the general history of ideas, but there is also a constant focus on how Dewey may assist us in solving some of the problems that face us in a so-called postmodern era. This book is the first to offer an interpretation of John Dewey's works with particular emphasis on his contribution to psychology. John Dewey distinguished himself by combining a culturalist approach to human life with a naturalistic one. He was an avowed naturalist and follower of Darwin, and Brinkmann shows how his non-reductionist, naturalist psychology can serve as a much-needed correction to contemporary forms of "evolutionary psychology." Dewey's psychology, however, is not an isolated element in his thinking as a whole, so the author also provides an introduction to the philosophical, ethical, and educational ideas that go hand-in-hand with his psychology. In the past couple of decades, there has been a renaissance of pragmatist ideas in philosophy, political theory, and education. Scholars are returning to the writings of William James, Charles Peirce, George Herbert Mead, and John Dewey. This book continues the fine tradition of Transaction's History and Theory of Psychology series.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Article
Ceccarelli, Glauco;
(2017)
Counseling, educazione, orientamento, psicologia: l’intreccio delle origini nel contesto nordamericano
(/isis/citation/CBB743793464/)
Article
Fallace, Thomas D.;
(2008)
John Dewey and the Savage Mind: Uniting Anthropological, Psychological, and Pedagogical Thought, 1894--1902
(/isis/citation/CBB000930183/)
Article
Anja Laukötter;
(2016)
How Films Entered the Classroom: The Sciences and the Emotional Education of Youth through Health Education Films in the United States and Germany, 1910–30
(/isis/citation/CBB761957343/)
Book
Despy-Meyer, Andrée;
(2002)
Institutions and Societies for Teaching, Research and Popularisation: Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science (Liège, 20-26 July 1997) Vol. XIX
(/isis/citation/CBB685113092/)
Article
Barrow, Mark V.;
(2009)
Dragons in Distress: Naturalists as Bioactivists in the Campaign to Save the American Alligator
(/isis/citation/CBB000932217/)
Book
Andrée Despy-Meyer;
(2002)
Duplicate
(/isis/citation/CBB839350513/)
Article
Yair Seltenreich;
(2016)
‘Children of Our Future’: Climate, Degeneration and Education in Hebrew Society in Mandatory Palestine (1917–1948)
(/isis/citation/CBB392214753/)
Article
David E. Meltzer;
Valerie K. Otero;
(2015)
A Brief History of Physics Education in the United States
(/isis/citation/CBB763880389/)
Article
Trãni, Christophe;
Häberlen, Joachim C.;
Spinney, Russell A.;
(2014)
Opposing Scientific Cruelty: The Emotions and Sensitivities of Protestors against Experiments on Animals
(/isis/citation/CBB001550388/)
Thesis
John P. Ivens;
(2018)
Making the Modern Person: The Tyler Rationale, Curriculum Studies, and Cybernetic Systems
(/isis/citation/CBB037051293/)
Article
Jim Wynter Porter;
(2020)
Guidance counseling in the mid-twentieth century United States: Measurement, grouping, and the making of the intelligent self
(/isis/citation/CBB370728709/)
Book
Dowbiggin, Ian Robert;
(2008)
The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century
(/isis/citation/CBB000930596/)
Book
Unger, Nancy C.;
(2012)
Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History
(/isis/citation/CBB001320951/)
Chapter
Gioielli, Robert;
(2011)
“How Can Any Community Be Expected to Accept Such a Scar?”: The Movement Against Destruction and Environmental Activism in Postwar Baltimore
(/isis/citation/CBB001214640/)
Article
Durst, Anne;
(2010)
“Venturing in Education”: Teaching at the University of Chicago's Laboratory School, 1896--1904
(/isis/citation/CBB001231200/)
Thesis
Johnston, James Scott;
(2004)
Inquiry and Its Contexts: John Dewey and the Aims of Education
(/isis/citation/CBB001562068/)
Book
Judith Friedlander;
(2019)
A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile
(/isis/citation/CBB482003690/)
Book
White, John;
(2006)
Intelligence, Destiny, and Education: The Ideological Roots of Intelligence Testing
(/isis/citation/CBB000774262/)
Book
David Salomoni;
(2023)
La lezione di geografia. Scuola, religione, scienza nell'età delle esplorazioni (1400-1800)
(/isis/citation/CBB248373698/)
Article
Hollinger, David A.;
(2011)
The Unity of Knowledge and the Diversity of Knowers: Science as an Agent of Cultural Integration in the United States Between the Two World Wars
(/isis/citation/CBB001231423/)
Be the first to comment!