The chapter analyzes Richard M. Gale’s critical engagement with Dewey’s thinking in his John Dewey’s Quest for Unity. The Journey of a Promethean Mystic. The first part of the chapter describes how Gale takes Dewey’s philosophy to constitute a pyramid with esthetic experience at the top as a summum bonum and inquiry as a supporting stratum. It also explains how Gale not only claims that Dewey thought inquiry was ubiquitous and universally desirable but also that Dewey thought of philosophy as a form of inquiry, which Gale takes to lead to a form of cultural barbarism in so far as it puts strict, verificationist limits on what philosophers are allowed to do. The second part of the chapter assesses Gale’s critique of Dewey and argues that while Gale is right about the central role of esthetic experience in Dewey’s thinking, he is not only mistaken when he claims that Dewey thought inquiry, in Dewey’s special sense, is ubiquitous or universally desirable, but also when he claims that Dewey thought of philosophizing after the model of scientific inquiry. As such, the chapter concludes that Gale’s critical engagement with Dewey’s thinking is strongly externalistic, even though it also points to the fact that they share a common concern about cultural barbarism and the importance of aesthetic experience that might serve as a starting point for a more fruitful dialogue than the one to be found in Gale’s book.