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Book SynopsisIn Classical American Philosophy: Poiesis in the Public Square, Rebecca Farinas takes seven major figures from the American philosophical canon and examines their relationship with an artistic or scientific interlocutor. It is a unique insight into the origins of American philosophy and through case studies such as the friendship between Alain Locke and the biologist E.E. Just and the collaboration between Jane Addams and George Herbert Mead, Farinas provides a new insight into these thinkers' ideas.
Her new perspective allows her to move beyond relational aesthetics to consider these theorists' phenomenological, metaphysical, religious and cosmological ideas and reapply them to the modern world. Indeed, the partnerships she examines have proved especially valuable to newer philosophical fields like value theory, ethics, pedagogy and semiotics. Her links between art and science also provide new vantage points on our society's continuing artis
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This work provides an original, creative, insightful, and extensive study of the intersection of philosophy, art, and politics in the period of classical American philosophy, including Charles Peirce, William James, Josiah Royce, John Dewey, Alain Locke, and Jane Addams. * Kenneth W. Stikkers, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA *
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. A New Universality: Pragmatic Symbols of World Peace in Drawing and Dance. 2. Josiah Royce’s Values of Interpretation and Community: Poetry, Cybernetics, and Folk Songs 3. Art and Soul: James and Scheler on Pragmatic Aesthetics. 4. The Icon Moves: Diversity through Pragmatic/Religious Aesthetics of the Euromaidan. 5. Dewey and Kahlo: Cosmopolitanism Midst Crisis. 6. Jane Addams’ Trajectory of Creative Memory Contra to Intersectional Violence. 7. Science and Art Moon-lit by Values: Relativity of Epi-Genetics, Film, and Cultural Democracy. Conclusion: Poiesis in Public: Creativity and Value-Making
