{"product_id":"the-grace-and-the-severity-victor-kestenbaum-9780226432168","title":"The Grace and the Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the Transcendent","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKestenbaum 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victor Kestenbaum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226432165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226432168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.10w x 0.73d","brand":"Victor Kestenbaum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119456252159,"sku":"9780226432168","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c6da42f1-6eb9-43af-9512-8291a8b2d11d.jpg?v=1687409454","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-grace-and-the-severity-victor-kestenbaum-9780226432168","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}