The Essential Dewey, Volume 2In addition to being one of the greatest technical philosophers of the twentieth century, John Dewey (1859 1952) was an educational innovator, a Progressive Era reformer, and one of America's last great public intellectuals. Dewey's insights into the problems of public education, immigration, the prospects for democratic government, and the relation of religious faith to science are as fresh today as when they were first published. His penetrating