Misreading Pragmatism—The Influence of Dewey's Philosophy on Chinese Modern Philosophy

Author: Gu Hongliang
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Publish Date: 2000-10-01
Features: This book employs scientific methods such as empirical reasoning, the debate between knowledge and action, skepticism, experimentation, and history, as well as the debate between the individual and society, the theory of democracy, and popular education as its main thematic threads. Represented primarily by Hu Shi and Tao Xingzhi, it delves into the influence of John Dewey's pragmatic philosophy on modern Chinese philosophy. It attempts to clarify how the disseminators, interpreters, critics, and dialoguers of Dewey's philosophy read it under the constraints of tradition.