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Rogers, Melvin Lee.

The undiscovered Dewey: Identity, democracy and the meaningfulness of experience.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The undiscovered Dewey: Identity, democracy and the meaningfulness of experience.
Author:	Rogers, Melvin Lee.
Description:	331 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Ian Shapiro.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-12, Section: A, page: 4566.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-12A.
Subject:	Religion, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3243687
ISBN:	9780542995606

The undiscovered Dewey: Identity, democracy and the meaningfulness of experience.
Rogers, Melvin Lee.

The undiscovered Dewey: Identity, democracy and the meaningfulness of experience. - 331 p.

Adviser: Ian Shapiro.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2006.

Part One maintains that we can resist this interpretation by situating Dewey's work within the late nineteenth-century debates over evolution and contingency. Unlike his liberal Protestant counterparts who appropriate and distort Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to sustain a vision of human progress, Dewey embraces the contingency Darwin highlights. He thus favors a more practical conception of inquiry that proceeds from and does not presume to necessarily overcome the impact of contingency on human intervention. Inquiry's legitimating character thus draws from two different directions, the character of the individuals confronted with specific ruptures in experience and the larger social and natural environment. Legitimation is realized through a discursive medium of giving and accepting reasons for proposals, hypotheses or plans of action. The result is that Dewey separates the meaningfulness of inquiry from a larger metaphysical story about human development, while simultaneously opening our commitments to reflective re-evaluation and public contestability in the context of our on-going social practices.

ISBN: 9780542995606Subjects--Topical Terms:

212708
Religion, General.

The undiscovered Dewey: Identity, democracy and the meaningfulness of experience.
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520 # $a Part Two argues that understanding inquiry along these lines provides new insight into Dewey's religious, moral and political philosophy. He does not seek to abandon religious commitments, but to redescribe their place within the context of democracy. He is thus sensitive to modern pluralism, especially the absence of a dominant ethical frame of reference that would otherwise guide the meaning-content of self and society. Moreover, his reliance on inquiry is attentive to the presence of moral conflict, and although inquiry seeks to achieve resolution among conflicting moral claims, Dewey acknowledges that the result may reveal the incommensurability of values. In its political context, his position provides us with a way to manage the relationship among experts and the larger public so that power does not lapse into domination.
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