That life and thought of the American philosopher John Dewey (1859-1952) still surprising today is not unusual at a time when intellectuals have given up their public and educational tasks. John Dewey was a thinker who knew no barriers between disciplines, encompassing problems of psychology and education, science and technology, ethics and politics, history, art and religion. Few changes took philosophies technical, cultural and political aspects of the twentieth century as his, and few have sent many messages to future ages. Had its roots in the European philosophical tradition, but it took Darwin's revolution and the experimental sciences. Values inherited from the Enlightenment, but the substrate developed in a democratic American títpicamente._x000D_
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Although after World War II boom were other philosophies, his thought will recover from the seventies, coinciding with the crisis of analytic philosophy and the resurgence of political philosophy. This body of work by Richard Bernstein, never before collected, provides an introduction, clear and accessible to all of the work of Dewey. Just a figure of the stature of Bernstein, partner and other critical thinkers as marked as Habermas, Gadamer and Rorty, could return a Dewey readers like this book, a multi-faceted Dewey, but whose reconstruction of the democratic ethos was one of its biggest challenges.