{"id":10169,"date":"2022-06-13T14:03:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T11:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/?post_type=product&#038;p=10169"},"modified":"2021-12-06T12:09:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T11:09:39","slug":"two-quests-for-unity","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/produkt\/two-quests-for-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Quests for Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"\" >Two Quests for Unity investigates the persistence of idealist philosophy in Anglo-America during the first half of the nineteenth century through a study of Robin George Collingwood (1889&ndash;1943) and John Dewey (1859&ndash;1952). <br \/>By focusing on an English and an American philosopher, this study illustrates the importance of taking a transnational approach to philosophy in contrast to the methodological nationalism that dominates the field. <br \/>&emsp;The study uncovers Dewey&rsquo;s and Collingwood&rsquo;s idealist background and shows that they shared certain character&shy;istics of idealism and its &ldquo;thought style&rdquo; throughout their lives, even though Dewey later became a pragmatist. As such, this study also provides insight into the historical relation between idealism and pragmatism. Special attention is given to unity, experience, and praxis, which were central notions in Anglo-American idealist philosophy as well as for Dewey and Collingwood.<br \/>&emsp;While Dewey and Collingwood came to reject and revise certain aspects of idealism, they nevertheless retained its conception of philosophy as a broad, synthetic, situated, and reconstructive form of humanistic cultural criticism committed to the common good. This ideal has unfortunately been lost, but a critical conversation with philosophers like Collingwood and Dewey may help us imagine what such a philosophy&thinsp;&mdash;adapted for the twenty-first century&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;might look like. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Quests for Unity investigates the persistence of idealist philosophy in Anglo-America during the first half of the nineteenth century through a study of Robin George Collingwood (1889&ndash;1943) and John Dewey (1859&ndash;1952). By focusing on an English and an American philosopher, this study illustrates the importance of taking a transnational approach to philosophy in contrast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10173,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[79],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10169","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-lund-studies-in-arts-and-cultural-sciences-cultural-sciences","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"taxable","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/10169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=10169"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=10169"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bokshop.lu.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=10169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}