Individualism Old and New

by John Dewey

Book Overview

America's most renowned social philosopher John Dewey shines his powerful intellect on the serious public and cultural issues surrounding the place of the individual in a technologically advanced... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573926930
• ISBN13: 9781573926935
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

One of the best philosophical socialist books

You wouldn't think it, but this little baby packs a huge radical punch. Written in 1929 after the Depression set in it's Dewey's testament on what he thought society would have to do to solve that kind of systemic problem and survive. What comes out from Dewey's experiential philosophy is a radical critique of individualism that fit's into the category today of "Council Communism" or "Autonomous Marxism", meaning socialism which is concieved according to Marxist type theory but is realized according to radically democratic and workerist means. A forgotten gem, read this and then absorb the liberatory potential of the rest of Dewey's many philosophical works.