Art as Occupations. Two Neglected Roots of John Dewey?s Aesthetics

FABIO CAMPEOTTO; SAHARREA JUAN; CLAUDIO VIALE

THE PLURALIST

University of Illinois Press

Lugar: Champaign; Año: 2023

1944-6489

(SCOPUS, Academic OneFile Current Abstracts, Humanities International Index, InfoTrac Custom Philosopher´s Index Religion Index One: Periodicals) (Notes 1. Authors: Campeotto, Fabio (CONICET, UNLaR); Saharrea, Juan (CONICET, IIPSI, UNC) and Viale Claudio M. (CONICET, Universidad Católica de Córdoba-Unidad Asociada al CONICET). Campeotto and Saharrea contributed similarly to the development of this work) Our purpose in this paper is to analyze two neglected roots of Dewey?s aesthetics: his fragmentary or piecemeal aesthetics and its links with education. Bearing this in mind, we put forward a twofold hypothesis. Firstly, that there is a link between this fragmentary aesthetics and education, which has neither been clearly established by Dewey nor systematically examined in the literature. Secondly, that some of Dewey?s educational conceptions -particularly the coherent articulation of occupations, art teaching and overcoming of the vocational-humanistic education dichotomy- are essential to a reevaluation of his aesthetics from a contemporary perspective.