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American philosopher John Dewey considered all human endeavors to be continuous with the natural world. This book insists on the primacy of the environment in aesthetic experience. It probes the work of a number of major American writers through the lens of Dewey's philosophy.

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Neil Browne has produced an illuminating study of John Dewey's philosophy that provides the first sophisticated theoretical grounding for the field of ecocriticism.... A particular strength is its emphasis upon aspects of Dewey's work which anticipate intellectual developments at the end of the 20th century. These include Dewey's philosophical embrace of Darwinian thought and evolutionary biology; his rejection of the dualisms of mind and body, nature and culture, human and non-human that have dominated Western philosophy; and Dewey's insistence upon the contingency and situatedness of human knowledge of the dynamic natural world. - Louise Westling, author of The Green Breast of the New World: Landscape, Gender, and American Fiction

The World in Which We Occur John Dewey Pragmatist

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      Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/30/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817315818, 978-0817315818
      ISBN10: 0817315810
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      American philosopher John Dewey considered all human endeavors to be continuous with the natural world. This book insists on the primacy of the environment in aesthetic experience. It probes the work of a number of major American writers through the lens of Dewey's philosophy.

      Trade Review
      Neil Browne has produced an illuminating study of John Dewey's philosophy that provides the first sophisticated theoretical grounding for the field of ecocriticism.... A particular strength is its emphasis upon aspects of Dewey's work which anticipate intellectual developments at the end of the 20th century. These include Dewey's philosophical embrace of Darwinian thought and evolutionary biology; his rejection of the dualisms of mind and body, nature and culture, human and non-human that have dominated Western philosophy; and Dewey's insistence upon the contingency and situatedness of human knowledge of the dynamic natural world. - Louise Westling, author of The Green Breast of the New World: Landscape, Gender, and American Fiction

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