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The Grace and the Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the Transcendent

The Grace and the Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the Transcendent

Kestenbaum, Victor

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Philosophy

ISBN10: 0226432165
ISBN13: 9780226432168
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Oct 1 2002
Pages: 261
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
In this highly original 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.

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