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Dewey for a New Age of Fascism

Teaching Democratic Habits

ISBN-13: 9780271084817
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Nathan Crick
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Local release date: 01/08/2019
Format: Hardback 248 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Philosophy & theory of education [JNA]

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During the rise of fascism in the early twentieth century, American philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey argued that the greatest threat to democracy was not a political regime or even an aggressive foreign power, but rather a set of dispositions or attitudes. Though not fascist in and of themselves, these habits of thought—rugged individualism and ideological nationalism—lay the foundation for fascism. In this study, Nathan Crick uses Dewey’s social thought and philosophy of education to provide insight on and resources for transforming our present-day politics.

Through a close reading of Dewey’s political writings and educational theory, Crick elaborates Dewey’s vision of democratic social life and the education required for its foundation. He shows that for Dewey communication is essential to cultivating sympathy, understanding, and goodwill—habits of thought that form the core of democratic culture. Crick then lays out a broad curriculum of logic, aesthetics, and rhetoric for inculcating these habits in the classroom, arguing that if we are to meet the challenge of fascism, we must teach these new arts as if our civilization depends on it—because in our new age of politics, it does.

Comprehensive and pragmatic, this book presents an experimental model of education that can be applied across the humanities curriculum. It will be of interest to teachers of writing, composition, and rhetoric, as well as scholars and students of communication studies, pedagogy, and political theory.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1 The Challenge of Fascist Antihumanism

1 Ragged Individualism

2 Animist Nationalism

3 Totalitarian Propaganda

Part 2 The Politics of Democratic Humanism

4 The Art of Individuality

5 Renascent Liberalism

6 Intelligence and Social Movements

Part 3 The Pedagogy of Democratic Humanism

7 Logic

8 Aesthetics

9 Rhetoric

Conclusion: Teaching Democratic Humanism

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“Grounded on a careful reading of Dewey’s social thought and philosophy of education, this book shows the relevance of Dewey’s ideas on the true ‘national emergency’ today in the USA: we are sliding into fascism and away from democratic communication. Crick lays out the habits needed for a more democratic culture and the means to obtain it via teaching logic, rhetoric, and aesthetics in a certain way. Dewey for a New Age of Fascism will be of interest to teachers and scholars in American philosophy, communication studies, pedagogy, and political theory.”

—Gregory Fernando Pappas, author of John Dewey’s Ethics: Democracy as Experience

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