TY - BOOK AU - Saito,Naoko ED - Project Muse. TI - The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson SN - 9780823285259 AV - B945.D44 S23 2005 U1 - 191 22 PB - Fordham University Press KW - Emerson, Ralph Waldo, KW - Dewey, John, KW - Education KW - Philosophy KW - Perfection KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-204) and index; In search of light in democracy and education: Deweyan growth in an age of nihilism -- Dewey between Hegel and Darwin -- Emerson's voice: Dewey beyond Hegel and Darwin -- Emersonian moral perfectionism: gaining from the closeness between Dewey and Emerson -- Dewey's Emersonian view of ends -- Growth and the social reconstruction of criteria: gaining from the distance between Dewey and Emerson -- The gleam of light: reconstruction toward holistic growth -- The gleam of light lost: transcending the tragic with Dewey after Emerson -- The rekindling of the gleam of light: toward perfectionist education; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/63624/ ER -