Thomas M. Alexander, The Human Eros: Eco-ontology and the Aesthetics of Existence

Introduction Like most scholars of Dewey’s aesthetics, Thomas Alexander (who may be counted foremost under that banner), has a tendency to see in Dewey’s work an inextricable tendency toward unity. Aesthetic experience in Dewey’s Art as Experience, turns on the concept of ‘fusion’ in which meanings are ‘fused’ into aesthetic wholes which can be embodied in art. Aesthetic experiences, taking in hand Dewey’s understanding of ‘experience’ as objective process involving the interplay of nature an...