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Kissssss
A Miscellany
Steve Katz
University of Alabama Press, 2007
This collection—derived from many impulses but unified through one distinctive sensibility—contains passionate subversive acts of language, oblique takes on American life, outbursts of comic genius, long meditations on the cruelty of contemporary customs, and funny, disturbing glimpses of daily life. Reality is rendered pitilessly real, and fantasy bares its teeth.
 
At once playful and devastatingly serious, the works in this collection employ a variety of forms—genres, anti-genres, fantasies, games—while highlighting the dangers and delights of contemporary life: Hollywood, tsunamis, war, the art world, AIDS, ambition, weapons of mass destruction, family values, perverse sexualities, urban violence, small change and big bucks, are all used to chum the waters of imagination and truth.
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The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 14, 1925 - 1953
1939 - 1941, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany
John Dewey. Edited by Jo Ann Boydston
Southern Illinois University Press, 2008

This volume republishes forty-four essays, reviews, and miscellaneous pieces from 1939, 1940, and 1941.

In his Introduction, R. W. Sleeper characterizes the contents of this volume as “vintage Dewey. Ranging widely over problems of theory and practice, they reveal him commencing his ninth decade at the peak of his intellectual powers.”

“Nature in Experience,” Dewey’s reply to Morris R. Cohen and William Ernest Hocking, “is a model of clarity and responsiveness,” writes Sleeper, “perhaps his clearest statement of why it is that metaphysics does not play the fundamental role for him that it had regularly played for his predecessors.”

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The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 15, 1925 - 1953
1942 - 1948, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany
John Dewey. Edited by Jo Ann Boydston
Southern Illinois University Press, 2008

This volume republishes sixty-two of Dewey’s writings from the years 1942 to 1948; four other items are published here for the first time.

A focal point of this volume is Dewey’s introduction to his collective volume Problems of Men. Exchanges in the Journal of Philosophy with Donald C. Mackay, Philip Blair Rice, and with Alexander Meiklejohn in Fortune appear here, along with Dewey’s letters to editors of various publications and his forewords to colleagues’ books. Because 1942 was the centenary of the birth of William James, four articles about James are also included in this volume.

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The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 6, 1925 - 1953
1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany
John Dewey. Edited by Jo Ann Boydston
Southern Illinois University Press, 2008

Except for Dewey’s and James H. Tufts’ 1932 Ethics (Volume 7 of The Later Works), this volume brings together Dewey’s writings for 1931–1932.

The Great Depression presented John Dewey and the American people with a series of economic, political, and social crises in 1931 and 1932 that are reflected in most of the 86 items in this volume, even in philosophical essays such as “Human Nature.” As Sidney Ratner points out in his Introduction, Dewey’s interest in international peace is fea­tured in the writings in this volume.

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The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 2, 1899 - 1924
Journal Articles, Book Reviews, and Miscellany in the 1902-1903 Period, and Studies in Logical Theory and The Child and the Curriculum
John Dewey
Southern Illinois University Press, 2008

Includes the complete text of Dewey’s Studies in Logical Theory and The Child and the Curriculum.

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The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 3, 1899 - 1924
Journal Articles, Book Reviews, and Miscellany in the 1903-1906 Period
John Dewey. Edited by Jo Ann Boydston
Southern Illinois University Press, 2008
Spanning the crucial years of Dewey’s move from the University of Chicago to Columbia University, Volume 3 col­lects thirty-six essays and reviews pub­lished at the very time Dewey deter­mined that his professional future would lie in the field of philosophy. After resigning from Chicago, Dewey seriously considered a career in univer­sity administration before finally decid­ing to accept a professorship in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia, where he was to remain the rest of his professional life.
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The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 8, 1899 - 1924
Essays and Miscellany in the 1915 Period and German Philosophy and Politics and Schools of To-Morrow
John Dewey. Edited by Jo Ann Boydston
Southern Illinois University Press, 2008

Volume 8 comprises all Dewey’s pub­lished writings for the year 1915—and only for 1915, a year of typically ele­vated productivity, which saw publica­tion of fifteen articles and miscellaneous pieces and three books, two of which are reprinted here: German Philosophy and Politics and Schools of Tomorrow.

Professor Hook says that the publica­tions in this volume reveal John Dewey at the height of his philosophical pow­ers. Even though his greatest works were still to come—Democracy and Education, Experience and Nature, The Quest for Certainty, and Logic: The Theory of Inquiry—“the themes elaborated there­in were already sounded and developed with incisive brevity in the articles and books of this banner year.”

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