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Beauty, responsibility, and power : ethical and political consequences of pragmatist aesthetics / edited by Leszek Koczanowicz and Katarzyna Liszka.

Title
Beauty, responsibility, and power : ethical and political consequences of pragmatist aesthetics / edited by Leszek Koczanowicz and Katarzyna Liszka.
Publication
  • Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2014.
  • ©2014

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Additional Authors
  • Koczanowicz, Leszek
  • Liszka, Katarzyna
Description
viii, 195 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
  • Value inquiry book series ; volume 277
  • Value inquiry book series : Central-European value studies
Uniform Title
  • Value inquiry book series v. 277.
  • Value inquiry book series. Central-European value studies.
Subject
  • Pragmatism
  • Aesthetics
  • Meaning (Philosophy)
  • Perception (Philosophy)
  • Pragmatismus
  • Ästhetik
  • Pragmatism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : Beauty and action -- pt. 1. Politics, community, and the city -- Somaesthetics and politics : incorporating pragmatist aesthetics for social action -- Embodied communities -- Ostentation and agoraphobia in the city -- pt. 2. Aesthetic experience -- "Anything goes" vs "who touches this book touches a man" : William James and Paul Feyerabend on metaphysical, ethical, and aesthetic "abundance" -- Experience and judgment : political and aesthetic -- Aesthetics as duty or aesthetics as faith : notes on Richard Shusterman's Pragmatist aesthetics with reference to Adorno and Castoriadis -- pt. 3. Ethics, humanism, and social hope -- The linguistic world : Rorty's aesthetic meliorism -- The concept of man in the shadow of the Shoah : Geras, Rorty and Shusterman in dialogue -- Somaesthetic encounter with oneself and the other -- pt. 4. Art of living and life politics -- Making the pragmatist art of living explicit -- The aesthetic cosmopolitan from a neo-pragmatist perspective : themes and challenges in Shusterman -- Philosophical anthropology in life politics of today.
ISBN
  • 9789042038790 (paperback)
  • 9042038799 (paperback)
  • 9401211620
  • 9789401211628 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • 889878893
  • SCSB-12376034
Owning Institutions
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