Practicing Pragmatist Aesthetics
Critical Perspectives on the Arts
Published on 1. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
236 pages
978-90-420-3836-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 (somaesthetics in particular), and others.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-3836-3 (9789042038363)
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Content
Acknowledgments
Wojciech Malecki: Pragmatist Aesthetics: History and Hope
Part One: Rethinking (Pragmatist) Aesthetics
Richard Shusterman: The Invention of Pragmatist Aesthetics: Genealogical Reflections on a Notion and a Name
Scott R. Stroud: The Art of Experience: Dewey on the Aesthetic
Roberto Frega: Pragmatic Objectivity and the Grounds of Validity of Aesthetic Judgments
Alexander Kremer: Understanding, Interpretation, Art, and Neopragmatism
Part Two: Rethinking the Arts
Krystyna Wilkoszewska: John Dewey and 20th-Century Art
Giovanni Maddalena: Writing as Complete Gesture: A Pragmatist View of Creativity
Kacper Bartczak: Wallace Stevens's Pragmatist Poetics of Plenitude
Jerold J. Abrams: Pragmatist Aesthetics and Cinematic Experience: Emerson, Dewey, and Shusterman
Else Marie Bukdahl: Embodied Creation and Perception in Visual Art
Monika Bakke: Practicing Aesthetics among Nonhuman Somas in the Age of Biotech
Barbara Formis: Eating as an Aesthetic Experience
Dorota Koczanowicz: Somaesthetics and the Art of Eating
Satoshi Higuchi: Somaesthetics in Japan as Practicing Pragmatist Aesthetics
About the Contributors
Index
Wojciech Malecki: Pragmatist Aesthetics: History and Hope
Part One: Rethinking (Pragmatist) Aesthetics
Richard Shusterman: The Invention of Pragmatist Aesthetics: Genealogical Reflections on a Notion and a Name
Scott R. Stroud: The Art of Experience: Dewey on the Aesthetic
Roberto Frega: Pragmatic Objectivity and the Grounds of Validity of Aesthetic Judgments
Alexander Kremer: Understanding, Interpretation, Art, and Neopragmatism
Part Two: Rethinking the Arts
Krystyna Wilkoszewska: John Dewey and 20th-Century Art
Giovanni Maddalena: Writing as Complete Gesture: A Pragmatist View of Creativity
Kacper Bartczak: Wallace Stevens's Pragmatist Poetics of Plenitude
Jerold J. Abrams: Pragmatist Aesthetics and Cinematic Experience: Emerson, Dewey, and Shusterman
Else Marie Bukdahl: Embodied Creation and Perception in Visual Art
Monika Bakke: Practicing Aesthetics among Nonhuman Somas in the Age of Biotech
Barbara Formis: Eating as an Aesthetic Experience
Dorota Koczanowicz: Somaesthetics and the Art of Eating
Satoshi Higuchi: Somaesthetics in Japan as Practicing Pragmatist Aesthetics
About the Contributors
Index