The Human Eros: Eco-ontology and the Aesthetics of Existence
In: American Philosophy
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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