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Sto caricando le informazioni... Experience and Nature (originale 1925; edizione 1958)di John Dewey
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. did not lie: "But although Dewey’s book is incredibly ill written, it seemed to me after several re-readings to have a feeling of intimacy with the inside of the cosmos that I found unequalled. So [it seemed to me as] God would have spoken had He been inarticulate but keenly desirous to tell you how it was." Dewey seems to be on to something important in his critique of non-historical metaphysics, so I found certain parts of this book very interesting. But in general I think his style of presentation is terribly unclear. There's really no argumentative thread at all. Most of the time I couldn't understand how the subject matter under discussion was at all relevant for metaphysical questions. So this is a book with a few gems and a hundred loose ends. This is Dewey's mature metaphysical work. It is an empirical investigation of the generic traits of all natural existences. Experience in all its complexity is taken to manifest the fundamental traits of nature in the fullness of their evidence. The work also covers the distinction and relation of the human and nonhuman. Finally, it contains a good deal of historical matter regarding previous philosophical systems. One of the great works of all time. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
John Dewey's Experience and Nature has been considered the fullest expression of his mature philosophy since its eagerly awaited publication in 1925.Irwin Edman wrote at that time that "with monumental care, detail and completeness, Professor Dewey has in this volume revealed the metaphysical heart that beats its unvarying alert tempo through all his writings, whatever their explicit themes." In his introduction to this volume, Sidney Hook points out that "Dewey's Experience and Nature is both the most suggestive and most difficult of his writings." The meticulously edited text published here as the first volume in the series The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953spans that entire period in Dewey's thought by including two important and previously unpublished documents from the book's history: Dewey's unfinished new introduction written between 1947and 1949,edited by the late Joseph Ratner, and Dewey's unedited final draft of that introduction written the year before his death. In the intervening years Dewey realized the impossibility of making his use of the word "experience" understood. He wrote in his 1951draft for a new introduction: "Were I to write (or rewrite) Experience and Nature today I would entitle the book Culture and Nature and the treatment of specific subject-matters would be correspondingly modified. I would abandon the term 'experience' because of my growing realization that the historical obstacles which prevented understanding of my use of 'experience' are, for all practical purposes, insurmountable. I would substitute the term 'culture' because with its meanings as now firmly established it can fully and freely carry my philosophy of experience." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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