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John Dewey's liberalism : individual, community, and self-development / Daniel M. Savage.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2002.Description: 1 online resource (219 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585457514
  • 9780585457512
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: John Dewey's liberalism.DDC classification:
  • 320.51/092 21
LOC classification:
  • JC251.D48 S18 2002eb
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Contents:
Introduction: Pragmatic Instrumentalism -- The Individual -- The Unity of Freedom and Virtue: A Deweyan Conception of Autonomy -- The Context of Freedom: A Deweyan Conception of the Self -- The Freedom of Creativity: A Deweyan Conception of Individuality -- The Community -- The Unity of Freedom and Authority: A Deweyan Conception of Social Intelligence -- The Unity of Freedom and the Good: A Deweyan Justification of Liberalism -- Cultural Evolution -- Conclusion: The Synthesis of Progress and Tradition.
Review: "John Dewey's classical pragmatism, Daniel M. Savage asserts, can be used to provide a self-development-based justification of liberal democracy that shows the current debate between liberal individualism and republican communitarianism to be based largely on a set of pseudoproblems."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-215) and index.

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Introduction: Pragmatic Instrumentalism -- The Individual -- The Unity of Freedom and Virtue: A Deweyan Conception of Autonomy -- The Context of Freedom: A Deweyan Conception of the Self -- The Freedom of Creativity: A Deweyan Conception of Individuality -- The Community -- The Unity of Freedom and Authority: A Deweyan Conception of Social Intelligence -- The Unity of Freedom and the Good: A Deweyan Justification of Liberalism -- Cultural Evolution -- Conclusion: The Synthesis of Progress and Tradition.

"John Dewey's classical pragmatism, Daniel M. Savage asserts, can be used to provide a self-development-based justification of liberal democracy that shows the current debate between liberal individualism and republican communitarianism to be based largely on a set of pseudoproblems."--Jacket.

English.

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