John Dewey And The Notion of Transaction

The parallel analyses of the historical evolution of community colleges and John Dewey’s work on democracy and education are each rich in their own right, but taken together they provide a critical overview of potential and promise.

Perhaps the most significant development in American philosophy in recent times has been the extraordinary renaissance of Pragmatism, marked most notably by the reformulations of the so-called "Neopragmatists" Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam. With Pragmatism offering the allure of potentially resolving the impasse between epistemological realists and antirealists, analytic and continental philosophers, as well as thinkers across the disciplines, have been energized and engaged by this movement.