Literaturempfehlungen
Einführungen in die Werke Deweys von anderen Autoren
Das Dewey-Center nennt einige ausgewählte Textsammlungen, die einen ersten Überblick geben können, unter http://www.siuc.edu/~deweyctr/
Dabei ist der von Larry Hickman herausgegebene Band »Reading Dewey« besonders geeignet, sich einen ersten Überblick über das Werk zu verschaffen.
Reading Dewey (Interpretationen für eine postmoderne Generation)
Herausgegeben by Larry A. Hickman. Bloomington (Indiana University Press)
Die 12 orginellen interpretativen Aufsätze in diesem Band platzieren Deweys Hauptwerke in ihrem jeweiligen historischen Kontext und versuchen, eine Neubewertung verschiedener Aspekte seines weiten philosophischen Wirkungsbereichs darzustellen.
Die Beitragenden sind: Thomas M. Alexander, Raymond D. Boisvert, James Campbell, James W. Garrison, Larry A. Hickman, Thelma Z. Lavine, Joseph Margolis, Peter T. Manicas, Gregory F. Pappas, Steven C. Rockefeller, Charlene Haddock Seigfried und John J. Stuhr.
Eine sehr gute Einführung in Deweys Werke findet sich in:
The Essential Dewey, Volumes I and II
Edited by Larry A. Hickman and Thomas M. Alexander
The Essential Dewey, Volumes I and II are Winners of Choice's "Outstanding Academic Title, 1999" award.
In addition to being one of the greatest technical philosophers of the twentieth century, John Dewey (1859-1952) was an educational innovator, a Progressive Era reformer, and one of America's last great public intellectuals. Dewey's insights into the problems of public education, immigration, the prospects for democratic government, and the relation of religious faith to science are as fresh today as when they were first published. His penetrating treatments of the nature and function of philosophy, the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of life, and the role of inquiry in human experience are of increasing relevance at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Based on the award-winning thirty-seven-volume critical edition of Dewey's work, The Essential Dewey presents in two thematically arranged volumes a collection of Dewey's essays that represents his thinking on every major issue to which he turned his attention. Taken as a whole, this collection provides unique access to Dewey's understanding of the problems and prospects of human existence and of the philosophical enterprise.
Zur weiteren Lektüre: Werke über Dewey
In der Sekundärlitertaur gibt es einige Einführungen, die den Einstieg in die Dewey-Forschung erleichtern können. Zu einigen deutschen Einführungen siehe auch diesen Link. Wir nennen hier einige ausgewählte Klassiker aus diesem Bereich:
- Alexander, Thomas M. John Dewey's Theory of Art, Experience, and Nature: The Horizons of Feeling. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987.
- Boisvert, Raymond D. Dewey's Metaphysics. New York: Fordham University Press, 1988.
- Burke, Thomas. Dewey's New Logic: A Reply to Russell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
- Campbell, James. The Community Reconstructs: The Meaning of Pragmatic Social Thought. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
- Campbell, James. Understanding John Dewey: Nature and Cooperative Intelligence. Chicago and La Salle: Open Court, 1995.
- Dykhuizen, George. The Life and Mind of John Dewey. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973.
- Garrison, Jim, ed. The New Scholarship on Dewey. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.
- Hickman, Larry A. John Dewey's Pragmatic Technology. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990.
- Hickman, L./Neubert, S./Reich, K. (Hg.): John Dewey - zwischen Pragmatismus und Konstruktivismus. Münster u.a. (Waxmann) 2004
- McDermott, John J., ed. The Philosophy of John Dewey. 2 vols. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.
- Rockefeller, Steven C. John Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
- Ryan, Alan. John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.
- Schilpp, Paul Arthur. The Philosophy of John Dewey. The Library of Living Philosophers, vol. 1. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University, 1939. [Reprinted, with bibliography extended to 1950, by Muriel Murray. New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1951. Reprinted, La Salle, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Co., 1970. 3d ed., 1989.]
- Sleeper, Ralph William. The Necessity of Pragmatism: John Dewey's Conception of Philosophy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986.
- Welchman, Jennifer. Dewey's Ethical Thought. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
- Westbrook, Robert B. John Dewey and American Democracy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.