The world in which we occur : John Dewey, pragmatist ecology, and American ecological writing in the twentieth century

The world in which we occur : John Dewey, pragmatist ecology, and American ecological writing in the twentieth century / Neil W. Browne.

American philosopher John Dewey considered all human endeavors to be one with the natural world. In his writings, particularly Art as Experience (1934), Dewey insists on the primacy of the environment in aesthetic experience. Dewey?s conception of environment includes both the natural and the man-ma...

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Main Author: Browne, Neil W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dewey, John, > 1859-1952 > Criticism and interpretation.
Dewey, John, > 1859-1952
Human ecology in literature.
Human ecology > Philosophy.
Human ecology > Philosophy. Human ecology in literature. Dewey, John > 1859-1952 > Criticism and interpretation.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Human ecology in literature
Human ecology > Philosophy
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • An arc of discovery: John Muir's my first summer in the Sierra
  • The form of the new: pragmatist ecology and Sea of Cortez
  • Rachel Carson's Marginal world: pragmatist ecology, aesthetics, and ethics
  • The coldest scholar on Earth: silence and work in John Haines's The stars, the snow, the fire
  • Northern imagination, wonder, politics, and pragmatist ecology in Barry Lopez's Arctic dreams.

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