Abstract
This episode is part one of four of the lecture series [HTA 13] on John Dewey's Art as Experience [1934], Chapters 1-3, of which the entire text's fourteen chapters were delivered in some format as a ten-lecture series in 1931 at Harvard for the honorary William James lecture series, with the assigned topic being the philosophy of art.
Guiding Questions
Ch. 1, The Live Creature
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How does mind-body dualism separate art from everyday experience and thereby estrange the live creature from intrinsic spiritual fulfillment?
- Compartmentalization of life prevents esthetic consummation and privatizes access to what should be a universal right to fulfillment. The spiritual is a refinement of the material, in a living body.