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Category : Lobbying
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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People's Lobby Bulletin
Author: The Later Works, 1925-1953
Author: John DeweyPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809312658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
"Essays, reviews, miscellany, and A Common Faith"--Jacket
The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 11, 1925 - 1953
Author: John DeweyPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809328215
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
This volume includes ninety-two items from 1935, 1936, and 1937, including Dewey's 1935 Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia, published as Liberalism and Social Action. In essay after essay Dewey analyzed, criticized, and reevaluated liberalism. When his controversial Liberalism and Social Action appeared, asking whether it was still possible to be a liberal, Horace M. Kallen wrote that Dewey "restates in the language and under the conditions of his times what Jefferson's Declaration of Independence affirmed in the language and under the conditions of his." The diverse nature of the writings belies their underlying unity: some are technical philosophy; other philosophical articles shade into social and political themes; social and political issues permeate the educational articles, which in turn involve Dewey's philosophical ideas.
The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 9, 1925 - 1953
Author: John DeweyPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809328192
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
This volume brings together sixty items from 1933 and 1934, including Dewey's Terry Lectures at Yale University. With the publication of the lectures as A Common Faith, Dewey encouraged his readers to see religion as human experience in a naturalistic and humanistic setting. He proposed that institutional religions would do well to focus on ideal possibilities in the present time and place rather than relying on the supernatural and the hereafter. Book jacket.
The Philosopher-Lobbyist
Author: Mordecai LeePublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438455305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The history of John Dewey's leadership of the progressive People's Lobby. John Dewey (1859–1952) was a preeminent American philosopher who is remembered today as the founder of what is called child-centered or progressive education. In The Philosopher-Lobbyist, Mordecai Lee tells the largely forgotten story of Dewey’s effort to influence public opinion and promote democratic citizenship. Based on Dewey’s 1927 book The Public and Its Problems, the People’s Lobby was a trailblazing nonprofit agency, an early forerunner of the now common public interest lobbying group. It used multiple forms of mass communication, grassroots organizing, and lobbying to counteract the many special interest groups and lobbies that seemed to be dominating policymaking in Congress and in the White House. During the 1930s, Dewey and the People’s Lobby criticized the New Deal as too conservative and championed a social democratic alternative, including a more progressive tax system, government ownership of natural monopolies, and state operation of the railroad system. While its impact on historical developments was small, the story of the People’s Lobby is an important reminder of a historical road not traveled and a policy agenda that was not adopted, but could have been. Mordecai Lee is Professor of Governmental Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of several books, including The First Presidential Communications Agency: FDR’s Office of Government Reports, also published by SUNY Press, and Promoting the War Effort: Robert Horton and Federal Propaganda, 1938–1946.
Freedom from Want
Author: Kathleen G. DonohuePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801874260
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Deftly combining intellectual, cultural, and political history, Freedom from Want sheds new light on the rise of consumerism in modern America and its implications for the philosophy of liberalism and the role of government in safeguarding the material welfare of the people.
The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 6, 1925 - 1953
Author: John DeweyPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809328161
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Except for Dewey's and James H. Tufts' 1932 Ethics (Volume 7 of The Later Works), this volume brings together Dewey's writings for 1931-1932. The Great Depression presented John Dewey and the American people with a series of economic, political, and social crises in 1931 and 1932 that are reflected in most of the 86 items in this volume, even in philosophical essays such as "Human Nature." As Sidney Ratner points out in his Introduction, Dewey's interest in international peace is featured in the writings in this volume.
American Cultural Studies
Author: Catherine A. WarrenPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252070082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
American Cultural Studies is a conversation among scholars about the sometimes contentious issue of what a specifically American cultural studies might look like. Assembling some of the field's most eloquent commentators, this volume stresses the importance of a historically informed cultural studies and delves into the discipline's roots in pragmatism, social activism, and radical politics. It also considers the moral and social responsibilities of citizen-intellectuals in the United States. Throughout these spirited discussions, the emphasis is on moving from theory to practice: from text-based to experience-based research, from spectator- to conversation-based models of narrative production, from a historical to historically informed analysis, and from political detachment to political engagement. Speaking from a variety of perspectives, contributors advocate ways to integrate private scholarship with public participation: by incorporating the lessons of feminist methodologies grounded in dialogue and ethnographic fieldwork, by recentering cultural studies on issues of economic opportunity and job equity, or by physically returning as a participant to one's home community. Offering fresh perspectives from within and outside the field, American Cultural Studies calls for intellectuals to engage in the cultures they study. By doing so, practitioners of cultural studies may succeed in affecting, rather than merely describing, the tensions and forces at work in the United States--its policies, its media structures, and its disintegrating democracy.
Cumulative Index to Publications of the Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1954
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American ActivitiesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description
Cumulative Index to Publications of the Committee on Un-American Activities 1938-1954
Author: Estados Unidos. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American ActivitiesPublisher:
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Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
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