The human eros : eco-ontology and the aesthetics of existence / / Thomas Alexander |
Autore | Alexander Thomas M. <1952-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 436 pages) |
Disciplina | 191 |
Collana | American philosophy |
Soggetto topico |
Aesthetics
Philosophy, American - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
Emerson
John Dewey Native American Thought Santayana aesthetics ecology imagination spirituality |
ISBN |
0-8232-5229-9
0-8232-5275-2 0-8232-5230-2 0-8232-5122-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Aesthetics of Reality: The Development of Dewey’s Ecological Theory of Experience -- 2. Dewey’s Denotative-Empirical Method: A Thread through the Labyrinth -- 3. Be tween Being and Emptiness: Toward an Eco-ontology of Inhabitation -- 4. The Being of Nature: Dewey and Buchler and the Prospect for an Eco-ontology -- 5. The Human Eros -- 6. Pragmatic Imagination -- 7. John Dewey and the Moral Imagination: Beyond Putnam and Rorty toward an Ethics of Meaning -- 8. Educating the Democratic Heart: Pluralism, Traditions, and the Humanities -- 9 .“Love Calls Us to Things of This World”: Santayana’s Unbearable Lightness of Being -- 10. Mountains and Rivers without End: The Intertwining of Nature and Spirit in Emerson’s Aesthetics -- 11. Creating with Coyote: Toward a Native American Aesthetics -- 12. Tricksters and Shamans: Eros, Mythos, and the Eco-ontological Imagination -- 13. Santayana’s Sage: The Disciplines of Aesthetic Enlightenment -- 14. Beauty and the Labyrinth of Evil: Santayana and the Possibility of Naturalistic Mysticism -- 15. The Spirituality of the Possible in John Dewey’s A Common Faith -- 16. Eros and Spirit: Toward a Humanistic Philosophy of Culture -- Bibliographic Essay on Resources for Native American Thought -- Index -- American Philosophy. Douglas R. Anderson and Jude Jones, series editors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788212203321 |
Alexander Thomas M. <1952-> | ||
New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Quiet testimony [[electronic resource] ] : a theory of witnessing from nineteenth-century American literature / / Shari Goldberg |
Autore | Goldberg Shari |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/382 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Witness bearing (Christianity) in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
Douglass
Emerson Henry James Melville ethics literary quiet silence testimony witnessing |
ISBN |
0-8232-5479-8
0-8232-6105-0 0-8232-5480-1 0-8232-5478-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Arriving at quiet -- Emerson: testimony without representation -- Douglass: testimony without identity -- Melville: testimony without voice -- James: testimony without life -- Conclusion: Staying quiet. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792022603321 |
Goldberg Shari | ||
New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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