✍ Scribed by Lyle K. Eddy
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In 1949, John Dewey and Arthur Bentley wrote a volume entitled Knowing and the Known published by Beacon Press in 1949 and hereafter referred to as K&K. 1 It brought together under one cover a series of papers previously and separately published at various times and places during the years from 1945 to 1948. These papers in turn grew out of correspondence engaging Dewey and Bentley from 1989. to 1951. A selection from this eorrespondenee is now also before us in book form under the rifle John Dewey and Arthur F. Bentley: A Philosophical Correspondence, 1932-1951, hereafter referred to as Correspondence.
Each of these two volumes is therefore very closely entangled with the other. The Correspondence is virtually indispensable background to a searching study of K&K. And the latter in turn is a summary and focus of many of the themes of the Correspondence. K&K stands to the Correspondence in a relation similar to that between chapter XI and prior chapters of K&K. Hence, for those readers who are already acquainted with K&K, that aequaintanee may serve as an introduction to the Correspondence. For those without such acquaintan.ce, on the other hand, the two volumes deserve joint exploration, although each in its own right is capable of sustaining a rewarding, independent examination.
The Correspondence (with K&K as its fruition) is a genuine confluence of two diverse, though not wholly dissimilar, lines of interest and background, Dewey's and Bentley's respectively. Even so the confluence remains incomplete. To students of their previous writings, this is perhaps incidentally noticeable in K&K. 1
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