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John Dewey outside his cabin in Hubbards, Nova Scotia, mid-1940s. Courtesy of the Morris Library, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

John Dewey
AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Robert B. Westbrook
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
ITHACA AND LONDON

For Shamra

To know where we stand toward Dewey’s ideas is to find out, at least in part, where we stand with ourselves.
—CHARLES
FRANKEL

Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Prologue
PART
ONE
A Social Gospel (1882–1904)
1 The Hegelian Bacillus
2 Organic Democracy
3 Chicago Pragmatism
4 No Mean City
PART
TWO
Progressive Democracy (1904–1918)
5 Reconstructing Philosophy
6 Democracy and Education
7 The Politics of War
PART
THREE
Toward the Great Contrary to this prevailing consensus Community (1918–1929)
8 The Politics of Peace
9 The Phantom Public
10 Philosophy and Democracy
PART
FOUR
Democrat Emeritus (1929–1952)
11 Consummatory Experience
12 Socialist Democracy
13 Their Morals and Ours
14 Keeping the Common Faith
Epilogue
Bibliographical Note

Preface
IN
the spring of 1881, William Torrey Harris, the editor of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy,
received a manuscript titled “The Metaphysical Assumptions of Materialism” from a young high school teacher in Oil City, Pennsylvania named John Dewey. A diffident note accompanied the manuscript, not only requesting Harris to evaluate the merits of the essay but also asking whether the article showed “ability enough of any kind to warrant my putting much of my time on that sort of subject.” The essay displayed considerable dialectical skill, and several months later Harris offered to publish it in the journal and encouraged its author to continue to pursue his interests in philosophy. This was the boost the shy young teacher needed during a difficult year in the classroom, and he resolved to abandon high school teaching and try to make a career of this sort of subject.
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Harris proved to be a fine judge. John Dewey would become the most important philosopher in modern American history, honored and attacked by men and women all over the world. His career spanned three generations of American life and thought, and his voice could be heard in the midst of cultural controversies from the 1890s until his death in 1952 at the age of ninety-two. Over the course of this long career, Dewey developed a philosophy that called for the unity of theory
and practice and exemplified this unity in his own work as a critical intellectual and political activist. His was ............

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