Volume 39, Number 12 · June 25, 1992
The Real John Dewey
By Louis Menand
John Dewey and American Democracy
by Robert B. Westbrook
Cornell University Press, 570 pp., $29.95
In the minds of most people born after the Second World War, John Dewey is an exceedingly dim presence, a figure apparently left stranded on the far side of the Sixties. He has seemed the spokesman for a world view whose day has passed. His ideas have not been thought worth knowing better, and his books, by and large, have not been read.
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