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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...QUEST FOR CERTAINTY???John Dewey?Minton, Balch ($4.00). John Dewey, philosopher's philosopher, educator's educator, has played a role in U. S. life not small but not popular.* In his latest book Dr. Dewey returns to one of his favorite attacks on a stubborn position: the problem of getting philosophical knowledge into action. Academic as Dr. Dewey may appear to the layman, he has ever had little use for a fugitive and cloistered learning that never sallies out and seeks its adversary: Life. Experimental knowledge, says he, is the most authentic, the only kind actually worth much. "Knowledge which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Philosopher's Philosopher | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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