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Title Practicing pragmatist aesthetics : critical perspectives on the arts / edited by Wojciech Małecki
Published Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 224 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Series Value inquiry book series ; volume 275. Central European value studies
Value inquiry book series ; v. 275.
Value inquiry book series. Central-European value studies.
Contents Pragmatist aesthetics : history and hope -- pt. 1. Rethinking (pragmatist) aesthetics -- The invention of pragmatist aesthetics : genealogical reflections on a notion and a name -- The art of experience : Dewey on the aesthetic -- Pragmatic objectivity and the grounds of validity of aesthetic judgments -- Understanding, interpretation, art, and neopragmatism -- pt. 2. Rethinking the arts -- John Dewey and 20th-century art -- Writing as complete gesture : a pragmatist view of creativity -- Wallace Stevens's pragmatist poetics of plenitude -- Pragmatist aesthetics and cinematic experience : Emerson, Dewey, and Shusterman -- Embodied creation and perception in visual art -- Practicing aesthetics among nonhuman somas in the age of biotech -- Eating as an aesthetic experience -- Somaesthetics and the art of eating -- Somaesthetics in Japan as practicing pragmatist aesthetics
Summary This is the first collection in English devoted exclusively to pragmatist aesthetics. Its main aim is to employ the resources of that rich and exciting tradition in studying artistic phenomena such as film, sculpture, bio-art, poetry, the novel, cuisine, and various body arts. But it also attempts to provide a wider background for such studies by sketching the history of pragmatist reflection on the aesthetic and by discussing some of the main positions that this history has produced: the aesthetic conceptions of C.S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, Joseph Margolis, Richard Shusterman
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Aesthetics -- 19th century
Aesthetics -- 20th century
Aesthetics.
Pragmatism.
pragmatism.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Pragmatism
Aesthetics
Form Electronic book
Author Małecki, Wojciech (Professor of literary theory), writer of introduction, editor.
LC no. 2014469918
ISBN 9789401210812
9401210810