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Dewey and the Aesthetic Unconscious: The Vital Depths of Experience

Dewey and the Aesthetic Unconscious: The Vital Depths of Experience

Henning, Bethany

Hardcover

Series: American Philosophy

PhilosophyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1793620210
ISBN13: 9781793620217
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Mar 30 2022
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
John Dewey was the most celebrated and publicly engaged American philosopher in the twentieth century. His naturalistic theory of experience generated new approaches to education and democracy and re-grounded philosophy's search for truth in the needs of life as it is shared and lived. However, interpretations of Dewey after the linguistic turn have either obscured or rejected the considerable role that he gives to the non-discursive dimension of experience. In Dewey and the Aesthetic Unconscious: The Vital Depths of Experience, Bethany Henning argues that much classical American philosophy implicitly recognizes an unconscious dimension of mind that is distinct from Freud's theory. Although the unconscious that emerges within American thought has never been treated systematically, it found its fullest expression in Dewey's work, particularly in his theory of aesthetic experience. This dimension of mind illuminates the continuity between nature and culture, and it provides us with an account of why artwork is often successful at communicating meanings from the ecological and intimate dimensions of life, where discourse often fails. If the relationship between the human and the organic world has emerged as the definitive question of twenty-first century life, then the aesthetic unconscious stands as a resource for our ecological and intimate well-being.

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