![]() ![]() Today's readers are apt to find him impenetrable. It cannot be that Dewey is still speaking to the everyday reader as perhaps he once did. But if Dewey was a mediator in the early twentieth century, what explains the recent Dewey revival, of which David Fott's book is the latest? John Dewey was "America's philosopher" in the first decades of the twentieth century, so Michael Sandel and Alan Ryan have recently claimed, because he helped people navigate through the extraordinary changes that modernity brought: the rise of an urban-industrial order the collapse of Victorian culture the emergence of technology and applied science at the expense of older patterns of faith even, in the realm of higher philosophy, the destruction of certitude, the comforting presumption that there is such a thing as Truth. Reviewed by David Steigerwald (Ohio State University, Marion) ![]() Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998. John Dewey: America's Philosopher of Democracy. ![]()
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