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Record Nr.

UNINA9910539468603321

Autore

Saito Naoko

Titolo

The gleam of light : moral perfectionism and education in Dewey and Emerson / / Naoko Saito

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press

[London, : Eurospan, distributor], 2005

ISBN

0-8232-3572-6

0-8232-4792-9

0-8232-2464-3

1-4294-7886-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

American philosophy series, , 1073-2764 ; ; no. 16

Disciplina

191

Soggetti

Perfection

Education - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

In search of light in democracy and education: Deweyan growth in an age of nihilism -- Dewey between Hegel and Darwin -- Emerson's voice: Dewey beyond Hegel and Darwin -- Emersonian moral perfectionism: gaining from the closeness between Dewey and Emerson -- Dewey's Emersonian view of ends -- Growth and the social reconstruction of criteria: gaining from the distance between Dewey and Emerson -- The gleam of light: reconstruction toward holistic growth -- The gleam of light lost: transcending the tragic with Dewey after Emerson -- The rekindling of the gleam of light: toward perfectionist education.

Sommario/riassunto

Saito reads Dewey's idea of progressive education through the lens of Emersonian moral perfectionism. She elucidates a spiritual and aesthetic dimension to Dewey's notion of growth, one considerably richer than what Dewey alone presents in his typically scientific terminology.