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The human eros: eco-ontology and the aesthetics of existence
Thomas M. Alexander
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Frontmatter (page i)
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Introduction (page 1)
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Part I: Nature and Experience (page 25)
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1 The Aesthetics of Reality: The Development of Dewey's Ecological Theory of Experience (page 27)
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2 Dewey's Denotative-Empirical Method: A Thread through the Labyrinth (page 54)
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3 Between Being and Emptiness: Toward an Eco-ontology of Inhabitation (page 72)
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4 The Being of Nature: Dewey and Buchler and the Prospect for an Eco-ontology (page 103)
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Part II: Eros and Imagination (page 133)
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5 The Human Eros (page 135)
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6 Pragmatic Imagination (page 159)
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7 John Dewey and the Moral Imagination: Beyond Putnam and Rorty toward an Ethics of Meaning (page 180)
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8 Educating the Democratic Heart: Pluralism, Traditions, and the Humanities (page 207)
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Part III: Aesthetics of Existence (page 225)
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9 "Love Calls Us to Things of This World": Santayana's Unbearable Lightness of Being (page 227)
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10 Mountains and Rivers without End: The Intertwining of Nature and Spirit in Emerson's Aesthetics (page 244)
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11 Creating with Coyote: Toward a Native American Aesthetics (page 263)
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12 Tricksters and Shamans: Eros, Mythos, and the Eco-ontological Imagination (page 284)
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Part IV: Spirit and Philosophy (page 301)
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13 Santayana's Sage: The Disciplines of Aesthetic Enlightenment (page 303)
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14 Beauty and the Labyrinth of Evil: Santayana and the Possibility of Naturalistic Mysticism (page 329)
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15 The Spirituality of the Possible in John Dewey's A Common Faith (page 352)
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16 Eros and Spirit: Toward a Humanistic Philosophy of Culture (page 392)
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Bibliographic Essay on Resources for Native American Thought (page 423)
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Index (page 431)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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
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