{"product_id":"9780809310036","title":"The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899 - 1924: 1918-1919, Essays on China, Japan, and the War","description":"\u003cp\u003eVolume 11 brings together all of Dewey’s writings for 1918\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eand 1919.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDewey’s dominant theme in these pages is war and its after­math. In the Introduction, Oscar and Lilian Handlin discuss his philosophy within the historical context: “The First World War slowly ground to its costly conclusion; and the immensely more difficult task of making peace got painfully under way. The armi­stice that some expected would permit a return to normalcy opened instead upon a period of turbulence that agitated fur­ther a society already unsettled by preparations for battle and by debilitating conflict overseas.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter spending the first half of 1918–19\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eon sabbatical from Columbia at the University of California, Dewey traveled to Japan and China, where he lectured, toured, and assessed in his essays\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ethe relationship between the two nations. From Peking he reported the student revolt known as the May Fourth Move­ment. The forty items in this volume also include an analysis of Thomas Hobbe’s philosophy; an affectionate commemorative tribute to Theodore Roosevelt, “\u003ci\u003eour \u003c\/i\u003eTeddy”; the syllabus for Dewey’s lectures at the Imperial University in Tokyo, which were later revised and published as \u003ci\u003eReconstruction in Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ean exchange with former disciple Randolph Bourne about F. Mat­thias Alexander’s \u003ci\u003eMan’s\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSupreme Inheritance\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand, central to Dew­ey’s creed, “Philosophy and Democracy.” His involvement in a study of the Polish-American community in Philadelphia—resulting in an article, two memoranda, and a lengthy report—is discussed in detail in the Introduction and in the Note on the “Confidential Report of Conditions among the Poles in the United States.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030536536304,"sku":"9780809310036","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809310036_p0.jpg?v=1763740484","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809310036","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}