How American Is Pragmatism?
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DOI: 10.1086/715656
Abstract: This essay examines the provenance of a single, curious term that William James often used in connection with his own pragmatism. The term is Denkmittel, an uncommon German contraction of Denk (thought) and Mittel (instrument).… read more here.
Keywords: pragmatism; american pragmatism; philosophy;
Critical Aesthetics Between American Pragmatism and the Frankfurt School
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DOI: 10.1515/humaff-2024-0067
Abstract: Abstract The publication of Art as Experience in 1934 marked a theoretical turning point away from the disinterested spectatorship of Kant towards an aesthetics of everyday life. Dewey’s major claim therein is that “aesthetic experience”… read more here.
Keywords: frankfurt school; american pragmatism; critical aesthetics; experience ... See more keywords