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Melvin L. Rogers. The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy . New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. xxi + 333. Hardback ISBN: 0-2311-4486-5

Melvin L. Rogers. The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy . New... away from the existential situation, a morality that forms a more self-reliant organism, and a democracy that is always addressing and undergoing strife, while limiting and restricting the power of the elites. Each of these positions reveal two things: one, that inquiry is active in only in the present moment ­ without abstraction and existential transcendence ­ and, two, that inquiry is subject to the radical precariousness of everyday experience. The chapters on religion, morality, and democracy illuminate the practice of inquiry in the public domain in order to show that inquiry does not yield a rationalism run rampant. Rogers explains, "The problem is that too much attention is given to inquiry's aim and not to the background domain of action from which it emerges and to which it must returns for assessment" (18). Rogers argues that inquiry is subject to the same shifts, contingencies, and precariousness that Darwin's theory indentifies in reality. But, according to Rogers, the more important revolution Darwin heralded is "the more lasting issue of whether we will believe that our values emerge from `the mutual interaction of changing things' or look for `them in some transcendent ... region'" (10). Consequently, as Dewey stresses, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Pragmatism Brill

Melvin L. Rogers. The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy . New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. xxi + 333. Hardback ISBN: 0-2311-4486-5

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Contemporary Pragmatism , Volume 8 (1): 211 – Apr 21, 2011
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away from the existential situation, a morality that forms a more self-reliant organism, and a democracy that is always addressing and undergoing strife, while limiting and restricting the power of the elites. Each of these positions reveal two things: one, that inquiry is active in only in the present moment ­ without abstraction and existential transcendence ­ and, two, that inquiry is subject to the radical precariousness of everyday experience. The chapters on religion, morality, and democracy illuminate the practice of inquiry in the public domain in order to show that inquiry does not yield a rationalism run rampant. Rogers explains, "The problem is that too much attention is given to inquiry's aim and not to the background domain of action from which it emerges and to which it must returns for assessment" (18). Rogers argues that inquiry is subject to the same shifts, contingencies, and precariousness that Darwin's theory indentifies in reality. But, according to Rogers, the more important revolution Darwin heralded is "the more lasting issue of whether we will believe that our values emerge from `the mutual interaction of changing things' or look for `them in some transcendent ... region'" (10). Consequently, as Dewey stresses,

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