Penn State University Press John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics and Morality (American and European Philosophy Series): 7

John Dewey and the Artful Life carefully reconstructs John Deweys account of aesthetic experience, links it to forms of moral cultivation, and extends pragmatisms meliorist project. Joining philosophy and practice, Scott Stroud both advances our understanding of pragmatist aesthetics and points us toward ways of everyday living that would adjust us better to our circumstances and work, call us to greater mindfulness about the moral possibilities of our situated presents, and help us communicate in a fuller manner aesthetically and ethically. Peter Simonson, University of Colorado at Boulder Review " John Dewey and the Artful Life carefully reconstructs John Dewey's account of aesthetic experience, links it to forms of moral cultivation, and extends pragmatism's meliorist project. Joining philosophy and practice, Scott Stroud both advances our understanding of pragmatist aesthetics and points us toward ways of everyday living that would adjust us better to our circumstances and work, call us to greater mindfulness about the moral possibilities of our situated presents, and help us communicate in a fuller manner aesthetically and ethically." --Peter Simonson, University of Colorado at Boulder"Scott Stroud's fine volume is the most complete and wide-ranging treatment of Dewey's aesthetics ever to appear. In the best pragmatist spirit, it uses its comprehensive scholarship to help us reconstruct not only art but many dimensions of our shared human experience." --Crispin Sartwell, Dickinson College About the Author Scott R. Stroud is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.