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The human eros: eco-ontology and the aesthetics of existence

Thomas M. Alexander
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  • Contents

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  • Frontmatter (page i)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • Part I: Nature and Experience (page 25)
    • 1 The Aesthetics of Reality: The Development of Dewey's Ecological Theory of Experience (page 27)
    • 2 Dewey's Denotative-Empirical Method: A Thread through the Labyrinth (page 54)
    • 3 Between Being and Emptiness: Toward an Eco-ontology of Inhabitation (page 72)
    • 4 The Being of Nature: Dewey and Buchler and the Prospect for an Eco-ontology (page 103)
  • Part II: Eros and Imagination (page 133)
    • 5 The Human Eros (page 135)
    • 6 Pragmatic Imagination (page 159)
    • 7 John Dewey and the Moral Imagination: Beyond Putnam and Rorty toward an Ethics of Meaning (page 180)
    • 8 Educating the Democratic Heart: Pluralism, Traditions, and the Humanities (page 207)
  • Part III: Aesthetics of Existence (page 225)
    • 9 "Love Calls Us to Things of This World": Santayana's Unbearable Lightness of Being (page 227)
    • 10 Mountains and Rivers without End: The Intertwining of Nature and Spirit in Emerson's Aesthetics (page 244)
    • 11 Creating with Coyote: Toward a Native American Aesthetics (page 263)
    • 12 Tricksters and Shamans: Eros, Mythos, and the Eco-ontological Imagination (page 284)
  • Part IV: Spirit and Philosophy (page 301)
    • 13 Santayana's Sage: The Disciplines of Aesthetic Enlightenment (page 303)
    • 14 Beauty and the Labyrinth of Evil: Santayana and the Possibility of Naturalistic Mysticism (page 329)
    • 15 The Spirituality of the Possible in John Dewey's A Common Faith (page 352)
    • 16 Eros and Spirit: Toward a Humanistic Philosophy of Culture (page 392)
  • Bibliographic Essay on Resources for Native American Thought (page 423)
  • Index (page 431)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
TCPS 50.2 (Spring 2014): 308-313 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.50.2.308
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Published: 2013
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780823252299 (ebook)
  • 9780823251209 (hardcover)
  • 9780823251216 (paper)
Series
  • Fordham American Philosophy
Subject
  • Philosophy
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