“A remarkable novel, notwithstanding the author’s habit of parodying his own literary peculiarities. Primal and melodramatic Mr Shaw Desmond’s prose certainly is, but it sweeps us along so rapidly as to make a pause for criticism difficult. The book, in spite of its grotesqueness, is a vivid and startling piece of impressionism.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p271 Ap 29 ’20 480w
DEWEY, JOHN. Reconstruction in philosophy. *$1.60 (3c) Holt 191
20–17102
In these lectures delivered at the Imperial university of Japan in Tokyo, the author attempts “an interpretation of the reconstruction of ideas and ways of thought now going on in philosophy.” (Prefatory note) He shows that the task of future philosophy is to clarify men’s ideas as to the social and moral strifes of their own day and, instead of dealing with “ultimate and absolute reality,” will consider the moral forces which move mankind towards a more ordered and intelligent happiness. Contents: Changing conceptions of philosophy; Some historical factors in philosophical reconstruction; The scientific factor in reconstruction of philosophy; Changed conceptions of experience and reason; Changed conceptions of the ideal and the real; The significance of logical reconstruction; Reconstruction in moral conceptions; Reconstruction as affecting social philosophy. Index.
“Concrete, clearly written and unusually free from abstruse reasoning and technical diction.”
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“The simplicity and penetration of the statement gives to this little book an importance considerably out of proportion to its size. Although the name pragmatism scarcely occurs on its pages, the book is the most comprehensive and enlightening pragmatic document that has yet appeared.” B. H. Bode
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