CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Dewey and the Problem of Intellectual Retrieval
Avoiding the Criticism: Dewey’s Darwinian Enlightenment
Redirection: Religious Certainty and the Quest for Meaning
The Plan of This Book
PART I • FROM CERTAINTY TO CONTINGENCY •
1 • Protestant Self-Assertion and Spiritual Sickness
Dewey’s Evasion of Protestant Self-Assertion and Spiritual Sickness
Darwin, Science, and the Moral Economy of Self and Society
Hodge and the Problem of Human Agency in the Wake of Evolution
Reconciliation and the Quest for Certainty
Dewey and the Meaningfulness of Modern Life
2 • Agency and Inquiry After Darwin
Inquiry and
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: Dewey’s Modified Aristotelianism
Theory, Practice, and the Quest for Certainty
The Experience of Living: Action and the Primacy of Contingency
Contingency and the Place of Intelligent Action
PART II • RELIGION, THE MORAL LIFE, AND DEMOCRACY •
3 • Faith and Democratic Piety
Democratic Self-Reliance: Emerson, Dewey, and Niebuhr
Reading
A Common Faith
4 • Within the Space of Moral Reflection
The Moral Life and the Place of Conflict
The Expanded Self: Deliberation, Imagination, and Sympathy
The Tragic Self: Deliberation and Conflict
5 • Constraining Elites and Managing Power
The Danger of Political Pessimism: Between Lippmann and Wolin
Employing and Legitimizing Power
The Permanence of Contingency: On the Precarious and Stable Public
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index