John Dewey and the Paradox of Liberal Reform: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York

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SUNY Press, 1 janv. 1990 - 215 pages
This book provides a fresh critique of John Dewey and the progressive tradition and warns against the superficial renaissance of Deweyan philosophy present in many of today's modern liberal educational reform movements. Challenging the four pillars of Dewey's pragmatism -- science, nature, democracy, experience -- Paringer argues for a critical or radical education praxis that more sensitively comes to grips with the difficulties of the nuclearized, postmodern world.

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The Scientific and the Transformational
33
The Natural and the Historical
71
The Personal and the Political
111
Epilogue
139
Bibliography
197
Index
213
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William Andrew Paringer teaches Philosophy and Educational Theory at the CUNY College of Staten Island and at Montclair State College.

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