Dewey for a New Age of Fascism

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