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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewEnvironmental Philosophy: A Revaluation of Cosmopolitan Ethics from an Ecocentric Standpoint calls for a new approach to ethics. Starting from the necessity for all life of air, water, and food, the book revalues the relation of ethics and environmentalism. Using insights of the environmental ethicists, environmental ethics becomes the model for ethics as a whole. Humans are part of a larger environment. Cosmopolitanism should be revised in accord with environmental ethics. The book applies a new theory of values to the relation of value and obligation, and of duty, rights and virtue, to accord with ecocentrism. The book also critically evaluates Utilitarianism and the self interest theory. Other chapters address population, species preservation and a practical program for environmental policy.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Wojciech Małecki: 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
