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Author_Victor Kestenbaum
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ethics
faith
good
habit
hans-georg gadamer
human nature
humanism
ideal
john dewey
knowledge
liminality
meaning
michael oakeshott
moral action
morality
nonfiction
philosophy
pragmatism
purpose
rationality
reason
religion
self
sin
transcendence
truth
unseen
virtue
vorurteil
wallace stevens
Product details
- ISBN 9780226432151
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 15 x 28mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2002
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 Wallace Stevens, shed new light on why Dewey regarded the human being's relationship to the ideal as "the most far-reaching question" of philosophy. For Dewey, the pragmatic struggle for the good life required a willingness "to surrender the actual experienced good for a possible ideal good". Dewey's pragmatism helps us to understand the place of the transcendent ideal in a world of action and practice.
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.
