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John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality

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John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality - Stroud, Scott R
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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 ...

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John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality 2011, Penn State University Press, University Park, PA

ISBN-13: 9780271050072

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John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality 2011, Pennsylvania State University Press, Pennsylvania

ISBN-13: 9780271050089

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