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John Dewey and The Philosopher's Taskreviewed by Michael Glassman — 2003 Title: John Dewey and The Philosopher's Task Author(s): Philip W. Jackson Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807741655, Pages: 119, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com Philip Jackson performs a valuable service (actually more than
one) in his new book John Dewey and The Philosopher’s
Task.The philosophical baseline of this book is an exploration
of Dewey’s conception of “experience” as
presented in one of his most important (Jackson says it may be the
most important) philosophic renderings, Experience and
Nature. The exploration of this concept takes on a
literary quality, foreshadowed in the title, because Dewey wrote
four versions of the introductory chapter to this book. There
is an inherent mystery in this, why four versions of a chapter that
is supposed to explain perhaps Dewey’s most basic
concept? Why did a philosopher of such deep convictions feel
the need to revise and revise yet again, until he determined to
replace the very word he held so closely in his work,
“experience”, with the word
“culture?” Within these obvious mysteries Jackson
finds more subtle questions. What exactly did Dewey see as
the philosopher’s task? And how did he reconcile his
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- Michael Glassman
The Ohio State University E-mail Author MICHAEL GLASSMAN is currently Associate Professor of Human Development at the Ohio State University. He is interested in the intersection of development and education, as well as the role of democracy in the classroom. His recent publications include "Dewey and Vygotsky: Society, experience and inquiry in educational practice," in Educational Researcher, 30, 3-14.
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