John Dewey —— His Thought and Influence

The book is very poorly reproduced and not worth even $1. I have returned it. Half the pages on the right side of the book are missing the beginning words or even more. Someone had read the book with a very sloppy underlines. The book should not be in the market. I actually bought the book because of the last article by Robert Pollock "Process and Experience" which I read to be a major article on understanding Dewey's thought. The book was produced by Fordham University which is a Catholic university and most of the authors are either SJ, Sister, or CP all practicing catholic preachers and it shows. The Pollock article is overrated and I was unable to read many of the pages because of the reproduction defect. Nevertheless, It has a very general overview with rather unnecessary references to Christianity. The author claims that if Dewey had a better understanding of traditions of Christian thought he would have understood that his action-based views are basically not new but a continuation of Christian thought. This claim is nowhere demonstrated in the article. In fact if anything, Dewey thought is fundamentally a continuation of Aristotle as opposed to Plato who still dominates and dominated Christian thought.Dont buy the book. Read Dewey himself.