The Collected Works Of John Dewey Index

This cumulative index to the thirty-seven volumes of The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882–1953, is an invaluable guide to The Collected Works. The Collected Works Contents incorporates all the tables of contents of Dewey’s individual volumes, providing a chronological, volume-by-volume overview of every item in The Early Works, The Middle Works, and The Later Works. The Title Index lists alphabetically by shortened titles and by key words all items in The Collected Works. Articles republished in the collections listed above are also grouped under the titles of those books. The Subject Index, which includes all information in the original volume indexes, expands that information by adding the authors of introductions to each volume, authors and titles of books Dewey reviewed or introduced, authors of appendix items, and relevant details from the source notes.

This cumulative index to the thirty-seven volumes of The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882–1953, is an invaluable guide to The Collected Works. The Collected Works Contents incorporates all the tables of contents of Dewey’s individual volumes, providing a chronological, volume-by-volume overview of every item in The Early Works, The Middle Works, and The Later Works. The Title Index lists alphabetically by shortened titles and by key words all items in The Collected Works. Articles republished in the collections listed above are also grouped under the titles of those books. The Subject Index, which includes all information in the original volume indexes, expands that information by adding the authors of introductions to each volume, authors and titles of books Dewey reviewed or introduced, authors of appendix items, and relevant details from the source notes.

The Past Masters The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953, II database contains all thirty seven volumes of the edition created by the Center for Dewey Studies at the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale along with the first supplementary volume, edited by Jo Ann Boydston, and published by Southern Illinois University Press, 1972-1985. Larry Hickman is the editor of the Past Masters electronic edition.

This volume includes all Dewey's writings for 1938 except for Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (Volume 12 of The Later Works), as well as his 1939 Freedom and Culture, Theory of Valuation, and two items from Intelligence in the Modern World. Freedom and Culture presents, as Steven M. Cahn points out, the essence of his philosophical position: a commitment to a free society, critical intelligence, and the education required for their advance.

This is the final textual volume in The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882⿿1953, published in 3 series comprising 37 volumes: The Early Works, 1882⿿1898 (5 vols.); The Middle Works, 1899⿿1924 (15 vols.); The Later Works, 1925⿿1953 (17 vols.). Volume 17 contains Dewey⿿s writings discovered after publication of the appropriate volume of The Collected Works and spans most of Dewey⿿s publishing life. There are 83 items in this volume, 24 of which have not been previously published. Among works highlighted in this volume are 10 ⿿Educational Lectures before Brigham Young Academy,⿿ early essays ⿿War⿿s Social Results⿿ and ⿿The Problem of Secondary Education after the War,⿿ and the previously unpublished ⿿The Russian School System.⿿