The gleam of light : moral perfectionism and education in Dewey and Emerson / / Naoko Saito
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| Autore: |
Saito Naoko
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| Titolo: |
The gleam of light : moral perfectionism and education in Dewey and Emerson / / Naoko Saito
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Fordham University Press |
| [London, : Eurospan, distributor], 2005 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 191 |
| Soggetto topico: | Perfection |
| Education - Philosophy | |
| 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. |
| 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.: | 9910539468603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
American philosophy series ; ; no. 16.