The Human Eros : Eco-ontology and the Aesthetics of Existence / Thomas M. Alexander.
Alexander, Thomas M., author.
2013
BH39 A43.2013
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The Human Eros : Eco-ontology and the Aesthetics of Existence / Thomas M. Alexander.
Author
Alexander, Thomas M., author.
ISBN
9780823252305
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823252305
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (456 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823252305 doi
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BH39 A43.2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
191
Summary
The Human Eros explores themes in classical American philosophy, primarily the thought of John Dewey, but also that of Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Santayana, and Native American traditions. Alexander's primary claim is that human beings have an inherent need to experience meaning and value, a "Human Eros." Ourvarious cultures are symbolic environments or "spiritual ecologies" within which the Human Eros seeks to thrive. This is how we inhabit the earth.Encircling and sustaining our cultural existence is nature, yet Western philosophy has not provided adequate conceptual models for thinking ecologically. Alexander introduces the idea of "eco-ontology" 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. He argues for the centrality of Dewey's thought to an effective ecological philosophy. Both "pragmatism" and "naturalism," he shows, need to be contextualized within an emergentist, relational, nonreductive view of nature and an aesthetic, imaginative, nonreductive view of intelligence.
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American Philosophy
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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. Be tween 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
Bibliographic Essay on Resources for Native American Thought
Index
American Philosophy. Douglas R. Anderson and Jude Jones, series editors

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