The gleam of light. Moral perfectionism and education in Dewey and Emerson 1. ed

• Main Authors: Saito, Naoko, Cavell, Stanley
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Fordham Univ. Press 2005; Fordham University Press
• Edition: 1
• Series: American philosophy series
• Subjects: Book Industry Communication; Dewey, John; Dewey, John, 1859–1952; EDUCATION; Education - Philosophy; Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803–1882; Erziehung; History of Western philosophy; Humanities; Movements; Perfection; Philosophical traditions and schools of thought; PHILOSOPHY; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Philosophy & theory of education; Philosophy and Religion; Philosophy and theory of education; Pragmatism; Society & social sciences; Society and Social Sciences; Vervollkommnung; Western philosophy from c 1800; Western philosophy, from c 1900; 1859-1952; 1803-1882
• ISBN: 0823224627; 9780823224623; 9780823285259; 0823285251; 0823224635; 9780823224630
• ISSN: 1073-2764
• DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvh4zg37

In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology andprocedures of standardization and quantification. Such attempts to make all aspects of practice transparent and subject to systematic accounting lack sensitivity to the invisible and the silent, to something in the humancondition that cannot readily be expressed in an either-or form. Seeking alternatives to such trends, Saito readsDewey's idea of progressive education through the lens of Emersonian moral perfectionism (to borrow a term coined by Stanley Cavell). She elucidates a spiritual and aesthetic dimension to Dewey's notion of growth, one considerably richer than what Dewey alone presents in his typically scientific terminology.