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16%OFFScott R. Stroud - John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality - 9780271050072 - V9780271050072
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John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality

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Description for John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality Hardback. Series: American and European Philosophy Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 459.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
American and European Philosophy Series
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271050072
SKU
V9780271050072
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About Scott R. Stroud
Scott R. Stroud is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews for John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality
“Scott Stroud’s fine volume is the most complete and wide-ranging treatment of Dewey’s aesthetics ever to appear. In the best pragmatist spirit, it uses its comprehensive scholarship to help us reconstruct not only art but many dimensions of our shared human experience.” —Crispin Sartwell, Dickinson College “John Dewey and the Artful Life carefully reconstructs John Dewey’s account of aesthetic ... Read more

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