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

• Autore: Saito Naoko
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2005; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2012; ©2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Disciplina: 191
• Soggetto topico: Education - Philosophy; Perfection
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-204) 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Gleam of Light
• ISBN: 0-8232-3572-6; 0-8232-4792-9; 0-8232-2464-3; 1-4294-7886-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451621203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American philosophy ; ; no. 16.