JohnDeweyandAmericanDemocracy

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 Metaphy......