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Record Nr.

UNISA996354145003316

Autore

Saito Naoko

Titolo

The Gleam of Light : Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson / / Naoko Saito

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-8232-8525-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 210 pages)

Collana

American Philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

CavellStanley

Disciplina

191

Soggetti

Perfection

Education - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- one. in search of light in democracy and education -- two. dewey between hegel and darwin -- three. emerson’s voice -- five. dewey’s emersonian view of ends -- six. growth and the social reconstruction of criteria -- seven. the gleam of light -- eight. the gleam of light lost -- nine. the rekindling of the gleam of light -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology andprocedures of standardization and quantification. Such attempts to make all aspects of practice transparent and subject to systematic accounting lack sensitivity to the invisible and the silent, to something in the humancondition that cannot readily be expressed in an either-or form. Seeking alternatives to such trends, Saito readsDewey’s idea of progressive education through the lens of Emersonian moral perfectionism (to borrow a term coined by Stanley Cavell). 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.