Title: The Grace and the Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the Transcendent
Abstract:In this book, Victor Kestenbaum calls into oft-repeated assumption that John Dewey's pragmatism has no place for transcendent. Kestenbaum demonstrates that, far from ignoring transcendent ideal, Dewey...In this book, Victor Kestenbaum calls into oft-repeated assumption that John Dewey's pragmatism has no place for transcendent. Kestenbaum demonstrates that, far from ignoring transcendent ideal, Dewey's works - on education, ethics, art and religion - are in fact shaped by tension between natural and transcendent. Kestenbaum argues that Dewey, pragmatic struggle for ideal meaning occurs at frontier of visible and invisible, tangible and intangible. Penetrating analyses of Dewey's early and later writings, as well as comparisons with works of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Michael Oakeshott and Wallace Stevens, shed new light on why Dewey regarded human being's relationship ideal as the most far-reaching question of philosophy. For Dewey, pragmatic struggle for good life required a willingness to surrender actual experienced good for a possible ideal good. Dewey's pragmatism helps us understand place of transcendent ideal in a world of action and practice.Read More
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-10-01
Language: en
Type: book
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