William A. Galston, in Raritai~(Winter 1993), Rutgers Univ., 31 Mine St., New Bmnswick, N.J. 08903.
John Dewey (1859-1952) is regarded some ad- mirers as America's uncrowned philosopher-king, the man who defined and popularized a civic reli- gion of democracy. In his long career, Dewey struggled to liberate philosophy from metaphysics, became the fountainhead of progressive thinking about education, and emphasized what he called "the religious meaning of democracy." But, con- tends Galston,...