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9780271050072 Academic Inspection Copy

John Dewey and the Artful Life

Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality
  • ISBN-13: 9780271050072
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Scott R. Stroud
  • Price: AUD $169.00
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2011
  • Format: Hardback 240 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ]
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Examines the relationship between art and morality discussed in the writings of American pragmatist John Dewey. Argues that there is a clear connection between the experience of art and the project of moral cultivation.


Contents

Acknowledgments

1 The Problems of Art and Life

2 The Value of Aesthetic Experience

3 Dewey on Experience, Value, and Ends

4 Aesthetic Experience and the Experience of Moral Cultivation

5 Reflection and Moral Value in Aesthetic Experience

6 Orientational Meliorism and the Quest for the Artful Life

7 Practicing the Art of Living: The Case of Artful Communication

8 Beginning to Live the Artful Life

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Educators interested in art and aesthetics, for example, will likely find his discussion of the importance of attentiveness and orientation intellectually stimulating. Similarly, readers interested in the relationship between education and moral cultivation will probably value his discussion of orientational meliorism. Finally, rhetoric and communications scholars should appreciate Stroud’s argument for the aesthetics of everyday communication. All in all, the book is a first-rate contribution to the literature on Dewey’s theory of art, art education, and his philosophy of art.”

—Eric A. Evans, Education and Culture

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