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The Grace and Severity of the Ideal
Victor Kestenbaum
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Paperback. In this work Victor Kestenbaum questions the oft-repeated assumption that John Dewey's pragmatism has no place for the transcendent. He demonstrates that, far from ignoring the transcendent ideal, Dewey's works are in fact shaped by the tension between the natural and the transcendent. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
In this book, Victor Kestenbaum calls into question the oft-repeated assumption that John Dewey's pragmatism has no place for the transcendent. Kestenbaum demonstrates that, far from ignoring the transcendent ideal, Dewey's works - on education, ethics, art and religion - are in fact shaped by the tension between the natural and the transcendent. Kestenbaum argues that to Dewey, the pragmatic struggle for ideal meaning occurs at the frontier of the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the intangible. Penetrating analyses of Dewey's early and later writings, as well as comparisons with the works of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Michael Oakeshott and ... Read more
In this book, Victor Kestenbaum calls into question the oft-repeated assumption that John Dewey's pragmatism has no place for the transcendent. Kestenbaum demonstrates that, far from ignoring the transcendent ideal, Dewey's works - on education, ethics, art and religion - are in fact shaped by the tension between the natural and the transcendent. Kestenbaum argues that to Dewey, the pragmatic struggle for ideal meaning occurs at the frontier of the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the intangible. Penetrating analyses of Dewey's early and later writings, as well as comparisons with the works of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Michael Oakeshott and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
261
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226432168
SKU
V9780226432168
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About Victor Kestenbaum
Victor Kestenbaum is associate professor of philosophy and education at Boston University. He is the author of The Phenomenological Sense of John Dewey: Habit and Meaning and the editor of The Humanity of the Ill: Phenomenological Perspectives.
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