Knowledge, Art, and Power

An Outline of a Theory of Experience
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42917-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 346, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 487 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Social Philosophy

In Knowledge, Art, and Power: An Outline of a Theory of Experience John Ryder presents an original theory of experience rooted in the American pragmatic naturalist philosophical tradition. The operative assumption of the book is that a clearer understanding of experience provides a richer conception of human being.

Beginning with the Deweyan idea of experience as the mutually constitutive engagement of an individual with her environing conditions, the theory posits that there are three general dimensions that condition all of our experience - cognitive (knowledge), aesthetic (art), and political (power). All other constituents and forms of experience, such as language, emotions, ethics, religion, and others, are conditioned by these three general threads that define the fabric of experience and of human life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ryder, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Nature and Experience

2 Experience and Judgment

3 The Cognitive Dimension of Experience

4 The Aesthetic Dimension of Experience

5 The Political Dimension of Experience

Conclusion

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Ryder, Ph.D. (1982), Stony Brook University (SUNY), is Provost and Professor Emeritus at the American University of Malta. He is the author of Interpreting America (Vanderbilt University Press, 1999) and The Things in Heaven and Earth (Fordham University Press, 2013), and co-founder of the Central European Pragmatist Forum.