Perhaps I am missing something, but are there other people out there who  
are as suprised at the absence of intellectual curiosity and the  
willingness to seriously examine possibly new (we can't know they aren't  
new until they are examined can we;  or is the closed society that Popper  
warned us about our model now) perspectives that seems to crop up  
regularly on this list? 
 
Second, postmodern deconstruction (let's just lump everything different  
into one category, easier to dismiss without detailed critical  
examination that way) in 1950; the thought slays me. 
 
Third, I have yet to see on this list, in the facile dismissals of those  
who are lumped (often over their objections) together as postmodernists,  
deconstructions, etc. any detailed, critical examination of any one of  
the authors so identified. 
 
Finally, I second Kevin Quinn's comments re: Diggins's vs. Westbrook's  
respective accounts of Dewey, and would only add that Rockefeller's John  
Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism is also a better account  
than Diggins's   
 
 
 
On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Ron Stanfield wrote: 
 
> By all means let us reinvent the wheel as many times as necessary for folks  
> to appreciate its usefulness. 
>