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John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the art of living : revisioning aesthetic education / David A. Granger.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Granger, David A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
- Dewey, John.
- Pirsig, Robert M.
- Aesthetics--Study and teaching.
- Life.
- Pragmatism.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 307 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Contents:
- Credit Lines ix
- Introduction: Dewey, Pirsig, and the Primacy of Lived Experience 1
- Dewey and Pirsig 4
- Philosophy and Literature 10
- Language and Meaning 17
- Cultivated Naivete 21
- 1 Dewey's and Pirsig's Metaphysics 24
- Existence as Dynamic and Static 24
- Situations and the Habitual Body 33
- Continuity and the Reflex Arc Concept 39
- Quality and the Ancient Greeks 43
- The Quest for Certainty 54
- 2 Metaphysics at Work 63
- Naturalistic Metaphysics 64
- Values, Evaluation, and Philosophy 70
- Pirsig's Value Hierarchy 84
- 3 Dewey's and Pirsig's Aesthetics 92
- An Experience 93
- Art and Everyday Affairs 97
- The Intractability of Art 107
- The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 115
- 4 Pragmatist Aesthetics and Romanticism 133
- Natural Supernaturalism and the Commonplace 135
- Expression 152
- Expression and Imagination 156
- Organic Unity 164
- 5 The Poetics of Cultural Renewal 169
- Emersonian Pragmatism and the Skeptical Impulse 170
- The Ancient Mariner 179
- Working with Language 185
- Cultural Renewal and the Mountain 189
- Individuality and Sociality 198
- 6 The Poetics of Personal Renewal 206
- The Emergent Poetic Self 207
- Emersonian Perfectionism 211
- Narrative in Dewey's Poetics of the Self 219
- Personal Renewal and the Mountain 232
- 7 Learning and Teaching Art as Experience 248
- Quality and Context 250
- Unified Activity 256
- The Space of Something, Perhaps 263
- A Single Ordinary (Extra-Ordinary) Brick 268.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-298) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403974020
- OCLC:
- 62878743
- Publisher Number:
- 9781403974020
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