Bibliography

Levine, Barbara, ed. Works about John Dewey: 1886-1995. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996, 526 p.

Combines the Checklist of Writings about John Dewey (1974; revised 1978) in addition to works published about Dewey since 1977, including books and articles about Dewey, reviews of Dewey's works, an author index, and a title key-work index.

Thomas, Milton Halsey. John Dewey: A Centennial Bibliography. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962, 370 p.

Divided into listings of works by and about Dewey.

Biography

Dykhuizen, George. The Life and Mind of John Dewey. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973, 429 p.

Dedicates equal space to each phase of Dewey's life, beginning with his Vermont boyhood, and ending with Dewey's retirement years from 1939 to 1952.

Criticism

Alexander, Thomas M. John Dewey's Theory of Art, Experience, and Nature: The Horizons of Feeling. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987, 325 p.

Traces Dewey's philosophy from his early embracement of Hegelian Idealism to his later writings, concluding that Dewey's philosophy contained several contradictions.

Gouinlock, James. John Dewey's Philosophy of Value. New York: Humanities Press, 1972, 377 p.

Examines Dewey's moral philosophy as but one element of what he believes is a consistent, multifaceted body of work.

Hickman, Larry A. John Dewey's Pragmatic Technology. Bloomfield and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990, 234 p.

Asserts that Dewey is the first postmodern philosopher, and the firstphilosopher to examine questions regarding modern science and technology.

Hook, Sidney. John Dewey: An Intellectual Portrait. New York: The John Day Company, 1939, 242 p.

Attempts to convey Dewey's complex philosophical views for readers new to philosophy.

Kuklick, Bruce. Churchmen and Philosophers: From Jonathon Edwards to John Dewey. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985, 253 p.

Concludes with two essays on Dewey: the first on Absolutism and Idealism; and the second on Instrumentalism.

Peters, R. S., ed. John Dewey Reconsidered. London, Henley and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977, 128 p.

Collection of essays by Anthony Quinton, Alan White, Martin Hollis, Anthony Flew, Jerome Brunner, Eileen Caudill, and others.

Ratner, Sidney. "John Dewey, Empiricism, and Experimentalism in the Recent Philosophy of Mathematics" in Journal of the History of Ideas (July-September 1992): 467-79.

Examines Dewey's concepts of logic, placing him in direct contrast with Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead.

Ryan, Alan. John Dewey and the High Tide of Liberalism. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1995, 414 p.

Finds many similarities between Dewey and the nineteenth-century British philosopher Thomas Hill Green, declaring that the two men shared many liberal humanist traits.

Westbrook, Robert B. John Dewey and American Democracy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991, 570 p.

Focuses on Dewey's social theories and his concepts of democratic ideals.

Wirth, Arthur G. John Dewey as Educator: His Design for Work in Education (1894-1904). New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966, 322 p.

Details Dewey's theories on education, believing much of his philosophy to be centered on supporting his concepts for school reform.

Additional coverage of Dewey's life and career is contained in the following source published by The Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 114.