LEADER 04954nam 2200829Ia 450 001 9910788212203321 005 20230922180254.0 010 $a0-8232-5229-9 010 $a0-8232-5275-2 010 $a0-8232-5230-2 010 $a0-8232-5122-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823252305 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060590 035 $a(EBL)1192590 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000871658 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11462303 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871658 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10822463 035 $a(PQKB)10019384 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000155670 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239818 035 $a(OCoLC)844436785 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse22190 035 $a(DE-B1597)555443 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823252305 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1192590 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239818 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10696015 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL487179 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1192590 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704610 035 $a(dli)HEB32061 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000015 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060590 100 $a20121016d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|uu|u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe human eros $eeco-ontology and the aesthetics of existence /$fThomas Alexander 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 436 pages) 225 0 $aAmerican philosophy 311 0 $a0-8232-5121-7 311 0 $a0-8232-5120-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Aesthetics of Reality: The Development of Dewey?s Ecological Theory of Experience --$t2. Dewey?s Denotative-Empirical Method: A Thread through the Labyrinth --$t3. Be tween Being and Emptiness: Toward an Eco-ontology of Inhabitation --$t4. The Being of Nature: Dewey and Buchler and the Prospect for an Eco-ontology --$t5. The Human Eros --$t6. Pragmatic Imagination --$t7. John Dewey and the Moral Imagination: Beyond Putnam and Rorty toward an Ethics of Meaning --$t8. Educating the Democratic Heart: Pluralism, Traditions, and the Humanities --$t9 .?Love Calls Us to Things of This World?: Santayana?s Unbearable Lightness of Being --$t10. Mountains and Rivers without End: The Intertwining of Nature and Spirit in Emerson?s Aesthetics --$t11. Creating with Coyote: Toward a Native American Aesthetics --$t12. Tricksters and Shamans: Eros, Mythos, and the Eco-ontological Imagination --$t13. Santayana?s Sage: The Disciplines of Aesthetic Enlightenment --$t14. Beauty and the Labyrinth of Evil: Santayana and the Possibility of Naturalistic Mysticism --$t15. The Spirituality of the Possible in John Dewey?s A Common Faith --$t16. Eros and Spirit: Toward a Humanistic Philosophy of Culture --$tBibliographic Essay on Resources for Native American Thought --$tIndex --$tAmerican Philosophy. Douglas R. Anderson and Jude Jones, series editors 330 $aThe Human Eros explores themes in classical American philosophy, primarily the thought of John Dewey, but also that of Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Santayana, and Native American traditions. Alexander?s primary claim is that human beings have an inherent need to experience meaning and value, a ?Human Eros.? Ourvarious cultures are symbolic environments or ?spiritual ecologies? within which the Human Eros seeks to thrive. This is how we inhabit the earth. Encircling and sustaining our cultural existence is nature, yet Western philosophy has not provided adequate conceptual models for thinking ecologically. Alexander introduces the idea of ?eco-ontology? to explore ways in which this might be done, beginning with the primacy of Nature over Being but also including the recognition of possibility and potentiality as inherent aspects of existence. He argues for the centrality of Dewey?s thought to an effective ecological philosophy. Both ?pragmatism? and ?naturalism,? he shows, need to be contextualized within an emergentist, relational, nonreductive view of nature and an aesthetic, imaginative, nonreductive view of intelligence. 410 0$aAmerican philosophy series. 606 $aAesthetics 606 $aPhilosophy, American$y20th century 610 $aEmerson. 610 $aJohn Dewey. 610 $aNative American Thought. 610 $aSantayana. 610 $aaesthetics. 610 $aecology. 610 $aimagination. 610 $aspirituality. 615 0$aAesthetics. 615 0$aPhilosophy, American 676 $a191 700 $aAlexander$b Thomas M.$f1952-$01006596 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788212203321 996 $aThe human eros$92316790 997 $aUNINA