| The Education of John Dewey: A Biography Based on original sources, notably the vast collection of unpublished papers in the Center for Dewey Studies, this book tells the full story of the life and times of the eminent American philosopher, pragmatist, education reformer, and man of letters. His philosophy, Pragmatism, has been the distinctive American philosophy during the last fifty years and his work on education is still influential today. Jay Martin has written and edited twenty-one books, Formerly Leo S. Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California, he is currently a psychoanalyst in private practice and Edward S. Gould Professor of Humanities, professor of government, and founder of the Questions of Civilization Program at Claremont McKenna College |