"Philosophical Scaffolding for the Construction of Critical Democratic Education" (Richard A. Brosio)

Abstract

Chapter 1 Introduction: Blueprint, Scaffolding, and Main Construction 1 -- Chapter 2 Unsuccessful Quest for Certainty: From Classical Greece to Postmodernist, New World (dis)Order 51 -- Chapter 3 Various Reds: Marx, Historical Materialism, Critical Theory, and the Openness Of History 79 -- Chapter 4 Saved by a Method: Science, Dewey, the Progressive Protest--And a Whiff of Reconstruction 121 -- Chapter 5 Existentialist Contingency, We May Just Be On Our Own--And Camus's Solidarity 161 -- Chapter 6 Liberationists: Freire and Various Spiritualists 195 -- Chapter 7 Politics of Identity: The Struggle for Human Dignity Is Expanded 245 -- Chapter 8 Back to Postmodernism: Problems and Possibilities--With a Touch of Green 303.