Peace in Motion: John Dewey and the Aesthetics of Well-Being
In: American University Studies v.212
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Frontispiece John Dewey -- Introduction -- 1. Seeing Further than Dewey -- Method of Our Inquiry -- The Philosophical Fallacy -- Experience as Ecology -- 2. The Falsification of Well-Being -- Happiness and Formalism -- The Fixation of Happiness -- The Modern Trajectory of Happiness -- Preference Fulfillment and Authenticity -- Well-Being Is Not an Aesthetic Value -- A Subjective-Relative Theory of Welfare -- The Tradition as the Philosophical Fallacy -- 3. Experience and the Situated Self -- The Intelligibility of Nature -- Continuity, Interaction and Situation -- Experience as Geography -- Habit: The Organized Response in Experience -- The Unification of Habit -- The Limits of Cognitive Experience -- 4. Inquiry and Creative Intelligence -- Inference as Existential Activity -- The Reflex Arc -- Creative Intelligence and Well-Being -- To Be Is To Be Relational -- Dramatic Rehearsal in Imagination -- Imagination, Education and Well-Being -- 5. Ethics and Value -- Meliorism and Well-Being -- Deliberation and the Future of Philosophy -- Valuation and Well-Being -- The Existential Context of Desire -- The Existential Nature of Qualitative Thought -- Instrumental Well-Being -- The Nature of Judgment -- 6. The Live Creature and the Aesthetic Mode -- The Aesthetic in Ordinary Experience -- Life and the Live Creature -- The Meaning of Peace in Motion -- The Naturalization of Aesthetic Sense -- Emotion and Expression in Aesthetics -- The Imaginational Aesthetics of Self-Activity -- Aesthetics and Vulnerability -- 7. The Enlargement of Experience -- The Precarious and the Stable -- Chance, Choice and Change -- Discovery and Creativity -- Authenticity and Well-Being -- The Transactional Self -- The Existential Context of Embodied Knowing -- 8. The Seat of Intellectual Authority