And I could totally be seeing it wrong.
So the way I understand the first two chapters of Dewey is that, as we discussed in class, there is no public. I think he's saying that the the state is confused with the public, and that the state is actually the will of one or two people, so it cannot be public...?
I think that this is an interesting way to look at society, if that is, indeed, Dewey's argument.
I'll come back to this later.
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I hope we come back to this lots, Jessica. He does claim that the public doesn't exist. Or is lost. Or confused. But why and what, precisely, this means is well worth exploring.
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