The Human Eros by Alexander Thomas;

Author:Alexander, Thomas;
Language: eng
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Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2013-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

1. See Larry Hickman’s John Dewey’s Pragmatic Technology (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989) and my own essay, “The Technology of Desire,” in Studies in Technology, vol. 8, ed. Paul Durbin, 1991.

2. See studies by Lisa Heldke, “John Dewey and Evelyn Fox Keller,” in Hypatia (1987), vol.2, no.3 and Eugenie Gatens-Robinson, “Dewey and the Feminist Successor Science Project,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (1992) vol. 27, no.4.

3. It is helpful to remember that the two memorable works that appeared in the positivistic series on “The Unity of Science” were highly critical of that idea: one was Dewey’s Theory of Valuation (an attack on emotivism and the fact-value distinction), the other Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

4. Democracy and Education (MW, 9:93). This point is also extensively made in The Public and Its Problems.

5. See “The Spirituality of the Possible in John Dewey’s A Common Faith,” chapter 11 in this volume.

6. See Democracy and Education, Chapters 8, 20, and 23.

7. Once again, this is why Art as Experience, which tends to stress the idea of individual creativity and expression, is a valuable counterbalance to much of Dewey’s social writing.

8. See Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989), Ch. 17.

9. See The Federalist Papers, 10 and 48–52.

10. See the discussion of the phrase “pursuit of happiness” by Garry Wills in his study of the Declaration, Inventing America (New York: Doubleday, 1978).

11. Two prominent examples of “postmodern” critics are Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault. Both provide negative critiques of modern society without believing that any constructive model can be offered in its place.

12. Again, Dewey’s analysis of artistic and aesthetic expressiveness in Art as Experience provides an important insight into what he means by “communication.” Art is the highest example for Dewey of this activity. An experienced artwork is not merely physically proximate but meaningfully present.

13. See Jean Piaget’s Psychology and Understanding, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Structure of Behavior and J. J. Gibson’s An Ecological Approach to Visual Perception.

14. See, for example, “The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology” (EW, 5:96–110).

15. See Dewey, Experience and Nature, chapter 5, and George Herbert Mead’s Mind, Self, and Society.

16. Politics, 1281a, 40ff.

17. See Alasdair MacIntyre, “Epistemological Crises and Narrative Explanation,” The Monist 60, no. 4 (1977): 453–72.

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