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“These essays build a valuable, if virtual, bridge between the thought of John Dewey and that of a host of modern European philosophers. They invite us to entertain a set of imagined conversations among the mighty dead that no doubt would have intrigued Dewey and each of the interlocutors gathered here.”—Robert Westbrook, author of John Dewey and American Democracy and/or Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth.

John Dewey and Continental Philosophy provides a rich sampling of exchanges that could have taken place long ago between the traditions of American pragmatism and continental philosophy had the lines of communication been more open between Dewey and his European contemporaries. Since they were not, Paul Fairfield and thirteen of his colleagues seek to remedy the situation by bringing the philosophy of Dewey into conversation with several currents in continental philosophical thought, from post-Kantian idealism and the work of Friedrich Nietzsche to twentieth-century phenomenology, hermeneutics, and poststructuralism.

John Dewey and Continental Philosophy demonstrates some of the many connections and opportunities for cross-traditional thinking that have long existed between Dewey and continental thought, but have been under-explored. The intersection presented here between Dewey’s pragmatism and the European traditions makes a significant contribution to continental and American philosophy and will spur new and important developments in the American philosophical debate.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Copyright Page
  2. p. iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Introduction: Overdue Conversations
  2. pp. 1-5
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  1. 1. German Post-Kantian Idealism and Dewey’s Metaphysics: Mutual Themes
  2. pp. 6-25
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  1. 2. Dewey, Hegel, and Knowledge after Kant
  2. pp. 26-43
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  1. 3. Traces of Hegelian Bildung in Dewey’s Philosophy
  2. pp. 44-68
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  1. 4. Pragmatism and Gay Science: Comparing Dewey and Nietzsche
  2. pp. 69-89
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  1. 5. Dewey, Nietzsche, and the Self-Image of Philosophy
  2. pp. 90-110
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  1. 6. Heidegger: A Pragmatist by Any Means
  2. pp. 111-125
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  1. 7. Science, Nature, and Philosophic Foundations: Dewey and Heidegger
  2. pp. 126-147
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  1. 8. Pragmatism and Hermeneutics
  2. pp. 148-160
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  1. 9. Dewey, Gadamer, and the Status of Poetry among the Arts
  2. pp. 161-173
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  1. 10. Educating the Self: Dewey and Foucault
  2. pp. 174-193
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  1. 11. The History and Critique of Modernity: Dewey with Foucault against Weber
  2. pp. 194-218
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  1. 12. Meanings, Communication, and Politics: Dewey and Derrida
  2. pp. 219-232
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  1. 13. Eagerness for Experience: Dewey and Deleuze on the Problematic of Thinking and Learning
  2. pp. 233-265
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 269-270
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 271-272
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