Our new special issue (v. 31, no. 2) on John Dewey's Legacy for Philosophy of Education is out!
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Call for Papers: 2024 Workshop on John Dewey, Race, and Colonialism at the Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Deadline: May 17, 2024.
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Nationalism, but nevertheless the people of a country as a whole are surely a better object of devotion than a ruling family. Except where national spirit has grown up, public spirit is practically non-existent.” – John Dewey, “The Fruits of Nationalism” (1927, LW 3: 153)
“Nationalism was at least a movement away from obnoxious conditions—parochialism on one hand and dynastic despotism on the other. To be interested in a nation is at least better than to restrict one's horizon to the bounds of a parish and province. Historically, Nationalism is
also connected with the decay of personal absolutism and dynastic rule. Loyalty to a nation is surely an advance over loyalty to a hereditary family endued in common belief with divine sanctions . . . Much of superstitious awe and foolish sentiment has indeed passed over into
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testy Honor to be defended and avenged at the cost of death and destruction is as sheer a case of animism.” – John Dewey, “The Fruits of Nationalism” (1927, LW 3: 156)
“In the sense of an enduring historic community of traditions and outlook in which the members of a given territory share, [the nation] is a reality. But the Nation by which millions swear and for which they demand the sacrifice of all other loyalties is a myth; it has no being
outside of emotion and fantasy. The notion of National Honor and the role which it plays is a sign of what is meant. Individual persons may be insulted and may feel their honor to be at stake. But the erection of a national territorial State into a Person who has a touchy and