{"product_id":"9780809311323","title":"The Collected Works of John Dewey 1927-1928: Essays, Reviews, Miscellany, and \"Impressions of Soviet Russia\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eAll of Dewey’s writings for 1927\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eand 1928 with the exception of \u003ci\u003eThe Public and Its Problems, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich appears in Volume 2, \u003ci\u003eA Modern Language Associ­ation’s Committee on Scholarly Editions \u003c\/i\u003etextual edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese essays are, as Sidorsky says in his Introduction, “framed, in great mea­sure, by those two poles of his philo­sophical interest: looking backward, in a sense, to the defense of naturalistic metaphysics and moving forward to the justification and to the implications for practice of an empirical theory.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDewey’s five essays on education are evidence of his continued interest in that field. Among them is the frequently quoted “Why I\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAm a Member of the Teachers Union,” which is still used by the American Federation of Teachers in its recruiting efforts. Other highlights of this volume include the famous ex­change between George Santayana and Dewey on \u003ci\u003eExperience and Nature; \u003c\/i\u003ean im­passioned condemnation of the mis­carriage of justice Dewey saw in the Sacco-Vanzetti trial; and a series of six articles on the Soviet Union based on Dewey’s trip to that country in 1928.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030950428912,"sku":"9780809311323","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809311323_p0.jpg?v=1763727212","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809311323","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}