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Victor
Kestenbaum
Professor of Philosophy
Office: STH 512
E-mail: vkestenb@bu.edu
Education: Ed.D., Rutgers University
Interests:American Philosophy,
Pragmatism and Phenomenology, Philosophy and
Literature, Phenomenology and Aesthetics |
Dr. Kestenbaum is the author of:
The Phenomenological Sense of John
Dewey: Habit and Meaning (Humanities
Press, 1977)
The Grace and the Severity of the Ideal:
John Dewey and the Transcendent (The
University of Chicago Press, 2002)
and the editor of
The Humanity of the Ill: Phenomenological
Perspectives (The University of Tennessee
Press, 1982)
Dr. Kestenbaum is author of the Editor’s
Preface to Dewey’s Theory of the
Moral Life (Irvington Publishers, 1992).
His research interests are in the areas of American
Philosophy (principally William James and John
Dewey), the relationship of Pragmatism to Phenomenology,
and Philosophy and Literature.
Dr. Kestenbaum is beginning work on the phenomenology
of attention in Robert Frost and Mark Rothko.
It will seek to clarify how the natural and the
transcendent function in poet and painter.
His graduate level teaching in the Department of
Philosophy has included American Philosophy, Phenomenology,
and Pragmatism and Hermeneutics.
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