Steven C. Rockefeller (essay date 1989)


Steven C. Rockefeller (essay date 1989)

SOURCE: "John Dewey, Spiritual Democracy, and the Human Future," in Crass Currents, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3, Fall, 1989, pp. 300-21.

[In the following essay, Rockefellerwriting from the perspective of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, as well as the student revolts in Chinaenumerates several concepts from Dewey's social agenda as a desirable antidote to spiritual and social oppression.]

The human race faces the urgent challenge of creating a global community...

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