[MD] New Book on Pirsig

[ian glendinning]

Excellent news ....

Dean Summers paper (on Ant's site) of course concentrated on the
pragmatists too; be interesting to compare analyses.

Ian

On 6/17/06, Peter Corteen <psigenics at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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