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1 online resource (viii, 195 pages) |
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Value inquiry book series ; volume 277 |
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Value inquiry book series. Central European value studies |
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Value inquiry book series ; 277.
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Value inquiry book series. Central-European value studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction Beauty and Action; Part One: POLITICS, COMMUNITY, AND THE CITY; ONE Somaesthetics and Politics: Incorporating Pragmatist Aesthetics for Social Action; TWO Embodied Communities; THREE Ostentation and Agoraphobia in the City; PART TWO: AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE; FOUR "Anything Goes" vs. "Who Touches this Book Touches a Man": William James and Paul Feyerabend on Metaphysical, Ethical, and Aesthetic "Abundance"; FIVE Experience and Judgment: Political and Aesthetic |
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SIX Aesthetics as Duty or Aesthetics as Faith: Notes on Richard Shusterman's Pragmatist Aestheticswith Reference to Adorno and Castoriadis; PART THREE: ETHICS, HUMANISM, AND SOCIAL HOPE; SEVEN The Linguistic World: Rorty's Aesthetic Meliorism; EIGHT The Concept of Man in the Shadow of the Shoah: Geras, Rorty and Shusterman in Dialogue; NINE Somaesthetic Encounter with Oneself and the Other; PART FOUR: ART OF LIVING AND LIFE POLITICS; TEN Making the Pragmatist Art of Living Explicit; ELEVEN The Aesthetic Cosmopolitan from a Neo-Pragmatist Perspective: Themes and Challenges in Shusterman |
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TWELVE Philosophical Anthropology in Life Politics of Today; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX |
| Summary |
This book addresses the interrelations between aesthetics, ethics, and politics in the framework of pragmatist aesthetics, offering a comprehensive panorama of the ways and fields in which pragmatist aesthetics ties in with vital social and ethical problems of modernity. Most of the contributors refer to the model propounded by Richard Shusterman. Following in Dewey's footsteps, Shusterman has elaborated and expanded his concept, adding new dimensions to it. The most important supplement is the idea of aesthetic experience being constituted by our bodiliness. In somaesthetics, pragmatism has a .. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Pragmatism.
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Aesthetics.
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Meaning (Philosophy)
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Perception (Philosophy)
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pragmatism.
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perception.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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Aesthetics
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Meaning (Philosophy)
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Perception (Philosophy)
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Pragmatism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Koczanowicz, Leszek, writer of introduction, editor, author
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Liszka, Katarzyna, writer of introduction, editor, author
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| ISBN |
9789401211628 |
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9401211620 |
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