Faith in Life

This is the first book to consider John Dewey's early philosophy on its own terms and to explicate its key ideas. It does so through the fullest treatment to date of his youthful masterwork, the Psychology. The book also provides a new assessment of Dewey's relationship to his teacher George Sylvester Morris and to other important idealists of the day, giving us a fresh picture of John Dewey, the man and the philosopher, in the early years of his career.Readers will find a wide range of topics discussed, from Dewey's early reflections on Kant and Hegel to the nature of beauty, courage, sympathy, hatred, love, and even death and despair.This is a book for anyone interested in the thought of John Dewey, American pragmatism, Continental philosophy, or a new idealism. The book should be of interest to philosophers, social scientists, political theorists, educators, and others who draw on Dewey's ideas.

Donald J. Morse