The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 11: 1918-1919, Essays on China, Japan, and the War

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Volume 11 brings together all of Dewey's writings for 1918and 1919.A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition.Dewey's dominant theme in these pages is war and its after math. In the Introduction, Oscar and Lilian Handlin discuss his philosophy within the historical context: " The First World War slowly ground to its costly conclusion; and the immensely more difficult task of making peace got painfully under way. The armi stice that some expected would permit a return to normalcy opened instead upon a period of turbulence that agitated fur ther a society already unsettled by preparations for battle and by debilitating conflict overseas." After spending the first half of 1918- 19on sabbatical from Columbia at the University of California, Dewey traveled to Japan and China, where he lectured, toured, and assessed in his essaysthe relationship...

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