Pragmatism Goes to War: John Dewey, Randolph Bourne and US Entry into the First World War

This work is devoted to the study of the reaction of American intellectuals in the United States entry into World War. The First World War changed Europe and mobilized and educated people from all over the world, not only at the front and in the rear, but also in the intellectual sphere. The debate about the meaning and consequences of the war did not stop among US politicians, scientists, writers, journalists and philosophers from the beginning of the war, sometimes giving rise to significant social and political ideas. In particular, in the controversy between the major American philosopher-pragmatist John Dewey and his pupil Randolph Bourne about whether America was to enter the war on the Entente side, or she should remain neutral, crystallized the views of these two American intellectuals on the American experience of modernity and democracy.