[MD] New Book on Pirsig

[Peter Corteen]

I was pleasantly surprised to see the name of John Dewey linked with that of
Pirsig. I didn't even know that Dewey was a philosopher - I vaguely knew
that he was involved in education. I knew his name  through being one of the
more famous people that took lessons from Matthias Alexander. Pirsig could
certainly have done with some lessons too as he commented several times in
his books about his poor body use: Alexander and
Dewey.<http://www.alexandertechnique.com/articles/dewey/><http://www.alexandertechnique.com/articles/dewey/>

Alexander developed a technique of physical re-education based on his
observations that man is a psyco-physical organism (mind and body are one).

Thought in action... imagine that.

On 16/06/06, Arlo J. Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
>
> [Matt]
> There's a new book going to be released in September on Pirsig called
> "John
> Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living : Revisioning Aesthetic
> Education"
> by David A. Granger.
>
> [Arlo]
> Yes, this looks to be good. That I am an admirer of Dewey can be seen at
> once in
> this description of his philosophy from Wikipedia.
>
> "[Dewey] saw Rousseau's as overemphasizing the individual and Plato's as
> overemphasizing the society in which the individual lived. For Dewey, this
> distinction was by and large a false one; like Vygotsky, he viewed the
> mind and
> its formation as communal process. Thus the individual is only a
> meaningful
> concept when regarded as an inextricable part of his or her society, and
> the
> society has no meaning apart from its realization in the lives of its
> individual members."
>
> Ah, what I've been saying all along. At any rate, yes, to use the
> overhyped
> phrase from the consumerist media, this may be the first "must read" book
> of
> the fall.
>
> Arlo
>
> Also from Wikipedia, "The most basic idea of John Dewey's with regard to
> education was that greater emphasis should be placed on the broadening of
> intellect and development of problem solving and critical thinking skills,
> rather than simply on the memorization of lessons."
>
> Critical thinking skills... imagine that.
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