Series Editor Foreword by Jaan Valsiner
Preface
1 Why Read Dewey Today?
2 Dewey's Life and Intellectual Trajectory
3 Dewey and Pragmatism
4 Philosophical Themes
5 Dewey's Forgotten Psychology Reactualized
6 Ethical Pragmatism and a Pragmatist Ethics
7 Education as Life
8 Dewey Challenged
References
Index
Svend Brinkmann is professor of psychology and qualitative methods in the department of communication and psychology at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. He is the author of numerous books, including Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life: Working with Everyday Life Materials and Psychology as a Moral Science: Perspectives on Normativity.
-Brinkmann, professor of psychology at the University of Aalborg in
Denmark, gives an overview of John Dewey's historical contributions
to philosophical and psychological thought and addresses his modern
relevance. The way Dewey's particular brand of thought can help
solve postmodern psychological issues is present throughout the
book.- --The Secular Humanist Bulletin -Svend Brinkmann's aim is to
present 'an interpretation of Dewey's position as strong, relevant,
and constructive with regards to science, psychology, ethics, and
education.' The central issue concerns how we can achieve truth in
an uncertain and changing world. Brinkmann challenges the idea that
Dewey's work was a precursor to postmodernism, and argues that it
provides, instead, a crucial alternative. He also brings out the
remarkable conceptual coherence of Dewey's diverse projects. The
book ends with a nicely judged assessment of the major criticisms
of Dewey's approach. A fitting introduction to a major intellectual
figure.- --Alan Costall, professor of theoretical psychology,
University of Portsmouth, UK -This book is a masterful exposition
of the broad-ranging work of John Dewey. It exemplifies the clarity
and focus on consequences which Dewey himself espoused. But more
than merely summarize, it brings us into Dewey's oeuvre through
contemporary concerns and scholarship, demonstrating its
contemporary relevance. Professor Svend Brinkmann is, I suspect,
one of the few scholars who understands the full paradigmatic
significance of Dewey's philosophy.- --Alex Gillespie, co-editor,
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Institute of Social
Psychology, London School of Economics -Svend Brinkmann
demonstrates in this book how theory and practice can intelligently
enrich each other. His look at the philosophy of John Dewey is
refreshing, as it stems from the Danish cultural and intellectual
traditions that treat practice-based learning as a norm, and are
known from the times of SOren Kierkegaard for their deep moral
attitude toward life. John Dewey's deeply American ways of thinking
are in this book explained and expanded by a gentle touch, leading
to general understanding of the world in terms of responsibility.
Brinkmann opens new alleys for the social thought of the
twenty-first century, and the reader is invited to explore those
facets of Dewey's thought--aesthetic and philosophical--that
usually are overlooked.- --Jaan Valsiner, Niels Bohr Professor of
Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark
"Brinkmann, professor of psychology at the University of Aalborg in
Denmark, gives an overview of John Dewey's historical contributions
to philosophical and psychological thought and addresses his modern
relevance. The way Dewey's particular brand of thought can help
solve postmodern psychological issues is present throughout the
book." --The Secular Humanist Bulletin "Svend Brinkmann's aim is to
present 'an interpretation of Dewey's position as strong, relevant,
and constructive with regards to science, psychology, ethics, and
education.' The central issue concerns how we can achieve truth in
an uncertain and changing world. Brinkmann challenges the idea that
Dewey's work was a precursor to postmodernism, and argues that it
provides, instead, a crucial alternative. He also brings out the
remarkable conceptual coherence of Dewey's diverse projects. The
book ends with a nicely judged assessment of the major criticisms
of Dewey's approach. A fitting introduction to a major intellectual
figure." --Alan Costall, professor of theoretical psychology,
University of Portsmouth, UK "This book is a masterful exposition
of the broad-ranging work of John Dewey. It exemplifies the clarity
and focus on consequences which Dewey himself espoused. But more
than merely summarize, it brings us into Dewey's oeuvre through
contemporary concerns and scholarship, demonstrating its
contemporary relevance. Professor Svend Brinkmann is, I suspect,
one of the few scholars who understands the full paradigmatic
significance of Dewey's philosophy." --Alex Gillespie, co-editor,
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Institute of Social
Psychology, London School of Economics "Svend Brinkmann
demonstrates in this book how theory and practice can intelligently
enrich each other. His look at the philosophy of John Dewey is
refreshing, as it stems from the Danish cultural and intellectual
traditions that treat practice-based learning as a norm, and are
known from the times of SOren Kierkegaard for their deep moral
attitude toward life. John Dewey's deeply American ways of thinking
are in this book explained and expanded by a gentle touch, leading
to general understanding of the world in terms of responsibility.
Brinkmann opens new alleys for the social thought of the
twenty-first century, and the reader is invited to explore those
facets of Dewey's thought--aesthetic and philosophical--that
usually are overlooked." --Jaan Valsiner, Niels Bohr Professor of
Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark
"Brinkmann, professor of psychology at the University of Aalborg in
Denmark, gives an overview of John Dewey's historical contributions
to philosophical and psychological thought and addresses his modern
relevance. The way Dewey's particular brand of thought can help
solve postmodern psychological issues is present throughout the
book." --The Secular Humanist Bulletin "Svend Brinkmann's aim is to
present 'an interpretation of Dewey's position as strong, relevant,
and constructive with regards to science, psychology, ethics, and
education.' The central issue concerns how we can achieve truth in
an uncertain and changing world. Brinkmann challenges the idea that
Dewey's work was a precursor to postmodernism, and argues that it
provides, instead, a crucial alternative. He also brings out the
remarkable conceptual coherence of Dewey's diverse projects. The
book ends with a nicely judged assessment of the major criticisms
of Dewey's approach. A fitting introduction to a major intellectual
figure." --Alan Costall, professor of theoretical psychology,
University of Portsmouth, UK "This book is a masterful exposition
of the broad-ranging work of John Dewey. It exemplifies the clarity
and focus on consequences which Dewey himself espoused. But more
than merely summarize, it brings us into Dewey's oeuvre through
contemporary concerns and scholarship, demonstrating its
contemporary relevance. Professor Svend Brinkmann is, I suspect,
one of the few scholars who understands the full paradigmatic
significance of Dewey's philosophy." --Alex Gillespie, co-editor,
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Institute of Social
Psychology, London School of Economics "Svend Brinkmann
demonstrates in this book how theory and practice can intelligently
enrich each other. His look at the philosophy of John Dewey is
refreshing, as it stems from the Danish cultural and intellectual
traditions that treat practice-based learning as a norm, and are
known from the times of SOren Kierkegaard for their deep moral
attitude toward life. John Dewey's deeply American ways of thinking
are in this book explained and expanded by a gentle touch, leading
to general understanding of the world in terms of responsibility.
Brinkmann opens new alleys for the social thought of the
twenty-first century, and the reader is invited to explore those
facets of Dewey's thought--aesthetic and philosophical--that
usually are overlooked." --Jaan Valsiner, Niels Bohr Professor of
Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark
"Svend Brinkmann's aim is to present 'an interpretation of Dewey's
position as strong, relevant, and constructive with regards to
science, psychology, ethics, and education.' The central issue
concerns how we can achieve truth in an uncertain and changing
world. Brinkmann challenges the idea that Dewey's work was a
precursor to postmodernism, and argues that it provides, instead, a
crucial alternative. He also brings out the remarkable conceptual
coherence of Dewey's diverse projects. The book ends with a nicely
judged assessment of the major criticisms of Dewey's approach. A
fitting introduction to a major intellectual figure." --Alan
Costall, professor of theoretical psychology, University of
Portsmouth, UK "This book is a masterful exposition of the
broad-ranging work of John Dewey. It exemplifies the clarity and
focus on consequences which Dewey himself espoused. But more than
merely summarize, it brings us into Dewey's oeuvre through
contemporary concerns and scholarship, demonstrating its
contemporary relevance. Professor Svend Brinkmann is, I suspect,
one of the few scholars who understands the full paradigmatic
significance of Dewey's philosophy." --Alex Gillespie, co-editor,
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Institute of Social
Psychology, London School of Economics "Svend Brinkmann
demonstrates in this book how theory and practice can intelligently
enrich each other. His look at the philosophy of John Dewey is
refreshing, as it stems from the Danish cultural and intellectual
traditions that treat practice-based learning as a norm, and are
known from the times of SOren Kierkegaard for their deep moral
attitude toward life. John Dewey's deeply American ways of thinking
are in this book explained and expanded by a gentle touch, leading
to general understanding of the world in terms of responsibility.
Brinkmann opens new alleys for the social thought of the
twenty-first century, and the reader is invited to explore those
facets of Dewey's thought--aesthetic and philosophical--that
usually are overlooked." --Jaan Valsiner, Niels Bohr Professor of
Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark
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