The Human Eros Eco Ontology and the Aesthetics of Existence 1st Edition by Thomas M Alexander ISBN 0823251209 9780823251209

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ISBN 10: 0823251209

ISBN 13: 9780823251209

Author: Thomas M. Alexander 

The Human Eros: Eco-ontology and the Aesthetics of Existence explores themes in classical American philosophy, primarily that of John Dewey, but also in the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Santayana, and Native American traditions. The primary claim is that human beings exist with a need for the experience of meaning and value, a “Human Eros.” Our various cultures are symbolic environments or “spiritual ecologies” within which the Human Eros can thrive. This is how we inhabit the earth. Encircling and sustaining our cultural existence is nature. Western philosophy has not generally provided adequate conceptual models for thinking ecologically. Thus the idea of “eco-ontology” undertakes to explore ways in which this might be done beginning with the primacy of Nature over Being, but also including the recognition of possibility and potentiality as inherent aspects of existence. I argue for the centrality of Dewey for an effective ecological philosophy. Both “pragmatism” and “naturalism” need to be contextualized within an emergentist, relational, non-reductive view of nature and an aesthetic, imaginative, non-reductive view of intelligence.

Table of contents:

PART I: NATURE AND EXPERIENCE

1. The Aesthetics of Reality: The Development of Dewey’s Ecological Theory of Experience
2. Dewey’s Denotative-Empirical Method: A Thread through the Labyrinth
3. Between Being and Emptiness: Toward an Eco-ontology of Inhabitation
4. The Being of Nature: Dewey and Buchler and the Prospect for an Eco-ontology

PART II: EROS AND IMAGINATION
5. The Human Eros
6. Pragmatic Imagination
7. John Dewey and the Moral Imagination: Beyond Putnam and Rorty toward an Ethics of Meaning
8. Educating the Democratic Heart: Pluralism, Traditions, and the Humanities

PART III: AESTHETICS OF EXISTENCE
9. “Love Calls Us to Things of This World”: Santayana’s Unbearable Lightness of Being
10. Mountains and Rivers without End: The Intertwining of Nature and Spirit in Emerson’s Aesthetics
11. Creating with Coyote: Toward a Native American Aesthetics
12. Tricksters and Shamans: Eros, Mythos, and the Eco-ontological Imagination

PART IV: SPIRIT AND PHILOSOPHY
13. Santayana’s Sage: The Disciplines of Aesthetic Enlightenment
14. Beauty and the Labyrinth of Evil: Santayana and the Possibility of Naturalistic Mysticism
15. The Spirituality of the Possible in John Dewey’s A Common Faith
16. Eros and Spirit: Toward a Humanistic Philosophy of Culture

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