The undiscovered Dewey religion, morality, and the ethos of democracy

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rogers, Melvin L. (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press 2009
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Dewey and the problem of intellectual retrieval
  • Avoiding the criticism : Dewey's darwinian enlightenment
  • Redirection : religious certainty and the quest for meaning
  • The plan of this book
  • Part I: From certainty to contingency
  • Protestant self-assertion and spiritual sickness
  • Dewey's evasion of Protestant self-assertion and spiritual sickness
  • Darwin, science, and the moral economy of self and society
  • Hodge and the problem of human agency in the wake of evolution
  • Reconciliation and the quest for certainty
  • Dewey and the meaningfulness of modern life
  • Agency and inquiry after Darwin
  • Inquiry and phronemacrosis : Dewey's modified aristotelianism
  • Theory, practice, and the quest for certainty
  • The experience of living : action and the primacy of contingency
  • Contingency and the place of intelligent action
  • Part II: Religion, the moral life, and democracy
  • Faith and democratic piety
  • Democratic self-reliance : Emerson, Dewey, and Niebuhr
  • Reading a common faith
  • Within the space of moral reflection
  • The moral life and the place of conflict
  • The expanded self : deliberation, imagination, and sympathy
  • The tragic self : deliberation and conflict
  • Constraining elites and managing power
  • The danger of political pessimism : between Lippmann and Wolin
  • Employing and legitimizing power
  • The permanence of contingency : on the precarious and stable public.