The Public and Its Problems

“This is an excellent project. It seems obvious to me that Melvin Rogers’s edition of The Public and Its Problems could become the standard teaching edition of this important work.” —Bob Pepperman Taylor, University of Vermont

“This will be the definitive edition of John Dewey’s most enduring work on politics. Melvin Rogers has performed the admirable task of crafting a beautifully lucid introduction and an exhaustive annotation of the text. Students and scholars of Dewey will be in Rogers’s debt for many years to come.” —Ian Shapiro, Yale University

“Scholars and teachers will welcome Melvin Rogers’s new edition of John Dewey’s The Public and Its Problems. The introduction and annotations are sophisticated, illuminating, elegant, and accessible. Masterfully situating Dewey in his historical context, Rogers persuasively shows that The Public and Its Problems remains a radically democratic book. This is the best edition available of Dewey’s most important political philosophical work.” —Jack Turner, University of Washington, author of Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America

“Melvin Rogers’s edition of The Public and Its Problems is skillfully tailored to meet the needs of teachers, rather than scholars. Rogers takes great care in helping contemporary students see how Dewey speaks immediately to the same issues taken up by Rawls, Nozick, Dworkin, Kymlicka, Sandel, and others. The book is an influential and profitable contribution.” —Vincent M. Colapietro, The Pennsylvania State University