John Dewey and the Artful Life

Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Pragmatism, Aesthetics, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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Author: Scott R. Stroud ISBN: 9780271074610
Publisher: Penn State University Press Publication: October 21, 2011
Imprint: Penn State University Press Language: English
Author: Scott R. Stroud
ISBN: 9780271074610
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Publication: October 21, 2011
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Language: English

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.

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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 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.

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