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Knowledge, Art, and Power
An Outline of a Theory of Experience
Series: - Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 346
- Social Philosophy, Volume: 346
- Value Inquiry Book Series Online, Volume: 346
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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.
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.
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.
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
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
All interested in experience, pragmatism, epistemology, theory of mind, aesthetics, philosophical anthropology, and social and political philosophy.