Placing Aesthetics: Reflections on the Philosophic Tradition (Volume 26) (Series In Continental Thought) - Softcover

Wood, Robert E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821412817 ISBN 13: 9780821412817

Publisher: Ohio University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Examining select high points in the speculative tradition from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and German tradition to Dewey and Heidegger, Placing Aesthetics seeks to locate the aesthetic concern within the larger framework of each thinker's philosophy.

In Professor Robert Wood's study, aesthetics is not peripheral but rather central to the speculative tradition and to human existence as such. In Dewey's terms, aesthetics is “experience in its integrity.” Its personal ground is in “the heart,” which is the dispositional ground formed by genetic, cultural , and personal historical factors by which we are spontaneously moved and, in turn, are inclined to move, both practically and theoretically, in certain directions.

Prepared for use by the student as well as the philosopher, Placing Aesthetics aims to recover the fullness of humanness within a sense of the fullness of encompassing Being. It attempts to overcome the splitting of thought, even in philosophy, into exclusive specializations and the fracturing of life itself into theoretical, practical, and emotive dimensions.

About this title

From the Author:

PLACING AESTHETICS was a winner of a CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD from the American Library Association.

About the Author:

Robert E. Wood, chair and professor of philosophy at the University of Dallas, is editor of American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly and author of Martin Buber's Ontology and A Path into Metaphysics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0821412817
• ISBN 13: 9780821412817
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432