BiblioVault

The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 7, 1899 - 1924: Essays, Books Reviews, Encyclopedia Articles in the 1912-1914 Period, and Interest and Effort in Education

by John Dewey
edited by Jo Ann Boydston
introduction by Ralph Ross
Southern Illinois University Press, 2008
Cloth: 978-0-8093-0881-1 | Paper: 978-0-8093-2802-4 | eISBN: 978-0-8093-3163-5
Library of Congress Classification B945.D41 2008b
Dewey Decimal Classification 191

ABOUT THIS BOOK

During the three years embraced by Volume 7, Dewey published twenty articles and reviews, one of the articles of monograph-length, “The Psychology of Social Behavior,” one small book, Interest and Effort in Education, and sev­enty encyclopedia articles.

A salient and arresting feature of the essays is the continuing polemic be­tween Dewey and some of his critics. Ralph Ross, whose perceptive Introduc­tion to the volume provides a broad per­spective of the various philosophical controversies in which Dewey was en­gaged, comments that “when Dewey was pitting himself against important adversaries, his talents as a critic were fully evident.”