Pragmatic Aesthetics: Beauty of Life, Thoughts on Art: Beauty of Life, Thoughts on Art

Author: Richard Shusterman
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: Through a broad and spirited reinterpretation of Dewey, Richard Shusterman establishes a new aesthetic theory that breaks free from traditional dualism while reconciling the traditional conflict between art and politics. This book is a representative work of American new pragmatist aesthetics. It revives the pragmatic philosophical tradition of the United States, placing pragmatism between the contentious analytical philosophy and deconstructionism, advancing contemporary Western mainstream thought on the basis of reconciling their contradictions. The author provides a strong theoretical defense of popular art and points out new ethical forms, known as aesthetic ethics or taste ethics.