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John Dewey in American Thought and Culture, 1950-2000 https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.132185 Selsdon Games, Fergus Gerstle, Gary Historians have long regarded John Dewey (1859-1952) as a central theorist of American democracy during the first half of the twentieth century. Yet, while historians have given much attention to Dewey’s philosophy, they have neglected to examine his posthumous influence on American thought and culture. This represents a major oversight, since Dewey’s thought continued to resonate with multiple and varied groups of Americans, orienting their participation in movements for social change in striking ways. Across divergent postwar contexts, the figures examined in this dissertation enlisted Dewey’s thought as a set of critical tools for thinking about intellectual engagement, civic reconstruction and the deepening of American democracy. University of Cambridge 2026-02-28 Thesis Doctoral Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) eng https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/406056 embargo 2027-07-13 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/0a950841-dc76-483a-9a8e-c8ac53ed0197/download 91337e667995a2e0f17bc696288e2315 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/bc333b69-1749-4301-b09d-8190b43070e5/download 87eda9de84448d1f82354d60eee3eb5f http://purl.org/NET/rdflicense/allrightsreserved American History American Philosophy Education Intellectual History John Dewey Political Thought Pragmatism Progressive Education