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There are 21 critical essays on John Dewey.
Critical Essays on John Dewey

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Critical Essay by Brian Patrick Hendley
17,352 words, approx. 58 pages
 In the following essay, Hendley presents a history of Dewey's Laboratory School, and focuses on Dewey's philosophical and educational goals for the school.
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Critical Essay by William W. Brickman
15,067 words, approx. 50 pages
 In the following essay, Brickman—a professor of Educational History and Comparative Education—defends his conclusion that Dewey's commentaries on politics and society form a cohesive and consistent whole.
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Critical Essay by Arthur E. Murphy
11,815 words, approx. 39 pages
 In the following essay, Murphy declares that Dewey's philosophical methods are unsound because they do not adopt scientific or practical methodology.
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Critical Essay by Alan B. Spitzer
10,523 words, approx. 35 pages
 In the following essay, Spitzer examines Dewey's role as commissioner of the committee to defend Leon Trotsky, its eventual finding that Trotsky was not guilty of the Moscow purges or of corroborating with Nazi Germany, Dewey's rejection of historical objectivity, and Dewey's conclusion that Trotsky was right although Dewey abhorred his political views.
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Critical Essay by Steven C. Rockefeller
10,396 words, approx. 35 pages
 In the following essay, Rockefeller—writing from the perspective of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, as well as the student revolts in China—enumerates several concepts from Dewey's social agenda as a desirable antidote to spiritual and social oppression.
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Critical Essay by Shannon Sullivan
9,760 words, approx. 33 pages
 In the following essay, Sullivan finds similarities between Dewey's esthetics and the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Critical Essay by Joseph Ratner
9,039 words, approx. 30 pages
 In the following essay, Ratner examines Dewey 's personal definition and objectives for his philosophy, concluding that Dewey believed philosophy to be an integral element of all human life.
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Critical Essay by Frank X. Ryan
8,327 words, approx. 28 pages
 In the following excerpt, Ryan examines Dewey's views on personal experience, concluding that he never was able to reconcile his seemingly contradictory views.
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Critical Essay by P. Eddy Wilson
7,799 words, approx. 26 pages
 In the following excerpt, Wilson examines the differences and similarities between the naturalism espoused by Dewey and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Critical Essay by Louis Menand
7,620 words, approx. 25 pages
 In the following review of Robert B. Westbrook's John Dewey and American Democracy, Menand gives an overview of Dewey's life and work, and touches briefly on the influence Jane Addams and Dewey's wife, Alice Chapman, had on his social consciousness.
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Critical Essay by Stephen C. Pepper
6,957 words, approx. 23 pages
 In the following excerpt, Pepper examines Dewey's writings on esthetics, which he finds are often contrary to Dewey's purported allegiance to Pragmatist tenets.
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Critical Essay by Randolph Feezell
6,718 words, approx. 22 pages
 In the following essay, Feezell humorously examines competitive collegiate sports in light of Dewey's Art as Experience.
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Critical Essay by Morton White
6,386 words, approx. 21 pages
 In the following article, White recounts Dewey's response to White's book Social Thought in America, and White's answer to Dewey's charges.
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Critical Essay by Michael Buxton
5,999 words, approx. 20 pages
 In the following excerpt, Buxton examines the movement of Dewey's thought from idealism to pragmatism, and identifies William James as a singular influence on the evolution of Dewey's beliefs.
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Critical Essay by Charles E. Merriam
1,654 words, approx. 6 pages
 In the following review of Dewey's Freedom and Culture, Merriam concludes that Dewey has a firm grasp on the theories of political science.
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Critical Essay by W. H. Werkmeister
1,466 words, approx. 5 pages
 In the following review of Dewey's Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, Werkmeister declares Dewey's work as a philosophical landmark.
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Critical Essay by Irving King
901 words, approx. 3 pages
 In the following review of Dewey's Democracy and Education, King attempts to elucidate Dewey's theories in order to support his thesis that the work is a worthwhile study of sociology, education, and philosophy.
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Critical Essay by M. C. Otto
638 words, approx. 2 pages
 In the following review of Dewey's Democracy and Education, Otto focuses on the sociological aspects of the work, which Otto expresses as the need for education to reflect common experiences.

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