JOHN DEWEY & MORAL IMAGINATION, by Steven Fesmire. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003, 167 pp. , $19.95 paper.

The resurgence of interest in pragmatism, especially in regard to the work of John Dewey, has been ongoing for several decades now. In addition to the development of neo-pragmatism with its appreciation of the deconstructive side of Dewey, there have also been numerous books written on the constructive side of pragmatism, including pragmatist aesthetics, metaphysics, politics, and education. An interest in pragmatist ethics, though later coming, seems to be picking up some steam at last, and Steven Fesmire's book, John Dewey & Moral Imagination, is an important contribution to that burgeoning area of inquiry.

William T. Myers
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Birmingham-Southern College