Title:
John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the art of living : revisioning aesthetic education
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Publication Information:
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Physical Description:
xii, 307 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781403974020
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Summary
Summary
This book explores the writings of philosopher and educator, John Dewey, in order to develop an expansive vision of aesthetic education and everyday poetics of living. Robert Pirsig's best-selling book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , provides concrete exemplifications of this compelling yet unconventional vision.
Author Notes
DAVID A. GRANGER is Associate Professor of Education, Ella Cline Shear School of Education, The State University of New York at Genese, USA.
Table of Contents
| Credit Lines | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction: Dewey, Pirsig, and the Primacy of Lived Experience | p. 1 |
| Dewey and Pirsig | p. 4 |
| Philosophy and Literature | p. 10 |
| Language and Meaning | p. 17 |
| Cultivated Naivete | p. 21 |
| 1 Dewey's and Pirsig's Metaphysics | p. 24 |
| Existence as Dynamic and Static | p. 24 |
| Situations and the Habitual Body | p. 33 |
| Continuity and the Reflex Arc Concept | p. 39 |
| Quality and the Ancient Greeks | p. 43 |
| The Quest for Certainty | p. 54 |
| 2 Metaphysics at Work | p. 63 |
| Naturalistic Metaphysics | p. 64 |
| Values, Evaluation, and Philosophy | p. 70 |
| Pirsig's Value Hierarchy | p. 84 |
| 3 Dewey's and Pirsig's Aesthetics | p. 92 |
| An Experience | p. 93 |
| Art and Everyday Affairs | p. 97 |
| The Intractability of Art | p. 107 |
| The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | p. 115 |
| 4 Pragmatist Aesthetics and Romanticism | p. 133 |
| Natural Supernaturalism and the Commonplace | p. 135 |
| Expression | p. 152 |
| Expression and Imagination | p. 156 |
| Organic Unity | p. 164 |
| 5 The Poetics of Cultural Renewal | p. 169 |
| Emersonian Pragmatism and the Skeptical Impulse | p. 170 |
| The Ancient Mariner | p. 179 |
| Working with Language | p. 185 |
| Cultural Renewal and the Mountain | p. 189 |
| Individuality and Sociality | p. 198 |
| 6 The Poetics of Personal Renewal | p. 206 |
| The Emergent Poetic Self | p. 207 |
| Emersonian Perfectionism | p. 211 |
| Narrative in Dewey's Poetics of the Self | p. 219 |
| Personal Renewal and the Mountain | p. 232 |
| 7 Learning and Teaching Art as Experience | p. 248 |
| Quality and Context | p. 250 |
| Unified Activity | p. 256 |
| The Space of Something, Perhaps | p. 263 |
| A Single Ordinary (Extra-Ordinary) Brick | p. 268 |
| Conclusion | p. 273 |
| Notes | p. 276 |
| Bibliography | p. 293 |
| Index | p. 299 |
