The John Dewey Project

FAIN: RQ-50084-04

Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, IL 62901-4302)
Larry Hickman (Project Director: November 2003 to December 2006)

Preparation of supplemental volumes to the Correspondence and Collected Works of John Dewey.

This proposal covers a portion of a multi-year project whose aim is to make available to researchers and the public all of John Dewey's incoming and outgoing correspondence until his death in 1952, as well as relevant third-party correspondence both prior to and subsequent to his death, in verbatim transcriptions. Access is being provided by means of an electronic edition of the complete correspondence, including the supplemental volume (1953-2001) covered by this proposal. The award-winning first volume (1871-1918) was published in 1999 and the second volume (1919-1939) was published in 2001. The third volume (1940-1952) will be published in 2004. This proposal also seeks funds to prepare a supplemental volume to the Collected Works of John Dewey. This volume will be published on electronic media and will contain material, some of which is newly discovered, that was not included in the previous thirty-seven volumes.