John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality Contributor(s): Stroud, Scott R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 027105008X ISBN-13: 9780271050089 Publisher: Penn State University Press OUR PRICE: $35.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Philosophy | Movements - Pragmatism - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
Dewey: 191 |
Series: American and European Philosophy |
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6" W x 9" (0.79 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Aesthetic experience has had a long and contentious history in the Western intellectual tradition. Following Kant and Hegel, a human's interaction with nature or art frequently has been conceptualized as separate from issues of practical activity or moral value. This book examines how art can be seen as a way of moral cultivation. Scott Stroud uses the thought of the American pragmatist John Dewey to argue that art and the aesthetic have a close connection to morality. Dewey gives us a way to reconceptualize our ideas of ends, means, and experience so as to locate the moral value of aesthetic experience in the experience of absorption itself, as well as in the experience of reflective attention evoked by an art object. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stroud, Scott R.: - Scott R. Stroud is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. |