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The gleam of light: moral perfectionism and education in Dewey and Emerson

Naoko Saito
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Foreword by Stanley Cavell (page xiii)
  • 1 In Search of Light in Democracy and Education: Deweyan Growth in an Age of Nihilism (page 1)
  • 2 Dewey between Hegel and Darwin (page 17)
  • 3 Emerson's Voice: Dewey beyond Hegel and Darwin (page 36)
  • 4 Emersonian Moral Perfectionism: Gaining from the Closeness between Dewey and Emerson (page 50)
  • 5 Dewey's Emersonian View of Ends (page 69)
  • 6 Growth and the Social Reconstruction of Criteria: Gaining from the Distance between Dewey and Emerson (page 81)
  • 7 The Gleam of Light: Reconstruction toward Holistic Growth (page 99)
  • 8 The Gleam of Light Lost: Transcending the Tragic with Dewey after Emerson (page 120)
  • 9 The Rekindling of the Gleam of Light: Toward Perfectionist Education (page 139)
  • Notes (page 163)
  • Bibliography (page 195)
  • Index (page 205)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
EC 24.1 (2008): 66-71 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/education_and_culture/v024/24.1.frank.html
PEW 58.4 (Oct. 2008): 596-605 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/philosophy_east_and_west/v058/58.4.odin.html
JSP 20.4 (2006): 320-322 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_speculative_philosophy/v020/20.4fahy.html
TCPS 42.2 (Spring 2006): 303-304 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/transactions_of_the_charles_s_peirce_society/v042/42.2mcgandy.html
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Published: c2005
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780823224623 (hardcover)
  • 9780823224630 (paper)
Series
  • Fordham American Philosophy
Subject
  • Philosophy
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