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John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living

Revisioning Aesthetic Education

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  • © 2006

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  1. David A. Granger
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Dewey, Pirsig, and the Primacy of Lived Experience

    • David A. Granger
    Pages 1-23

  3. Dewey’s and Pirsig’s Metaphysics

    • David A. Granger
    Pages 24-62

  4. Metaphysics at Work

    • David A. Granger
    Pages 63-91

  5. Dewey’s and Pirsig’s Aesthetics

    • David A. Granger
    Pages 92-132

  6. Pragmatist Aesthetics and Romanticism

    • David A. Granger
    Pages 133-168

  7. The Poetics of Cultural Renewal

    • David A. Granger
    Pages 169-205

  8. The Poetics of Personal Renewal

    • David A. Granger
    Pages 206-247

  9. Learning and Teaching Art as Experience

    • David A. Granger
    Pages 248-275

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 276-307
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About this book

This book explores the writings of philosopher and educator, John Dewey, in order to develop an expansive vision of aesthetic education and everyday poetics of living. Robert Pirsig's best-selling book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , provides concrete exemplifications of this compelling yet unconventional vision.

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This autumn, an academic philosopher named David A. Granger will publish a book called John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living. Pirsig is overjoyed. This really could be my white knight. - Times Online

About the author

DAVID A. GRANGER is Associate Professor of Education, Ella Cline Shear School of Education, The State University of New York at Genese, USA.

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