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

• Main Author: Saito, Naoko (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2005.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: American philosophy series. v. 16
• Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo > 1803-1882; Dewey, John, > 1859-1952; Φιλοσοφία, Αμερικανική; Εκπαίδευση > Φιλοσοφία; Τελειότητα (Φιλοσοφία)

Table of Contents:

• In search of light in democracy and education: Deweyan growth in an age of nihilism
• Dewey between Hegel and Darwin
• Emerson's voice: Dewey beyond Hegel and Darwin
• Emersonian moral perfectionism: gaining from the closeness between Dewey and Emerson
• Dewey's Emersonian view of ends
• Growth and the social reconstruction of criteria: gaining from the distance between Dewey and Emerson
• The gleam of light: reconstruction toward holistic growth
• The gleam of light lost: transcending the tragic with Dewey after Emerson
• The rekindling of the gleam of light: toward perfectionist education.