Pragmatism for Architects

Contemporary Pragmatism 1 (1):133-149 (2004)
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Abstract

Dewey's pragmatist aesthetics attempts to reconcile the tension between public and private demands on the work of art that has troubled contemporary architecture since the passing of modernism. As a public philosophy of art it holds tremendous promise; but architects will likely find Dewey's characterization of the individual encounter with the work of art less satisfactory. This suggests that Dewey's pragmatism may have over-committed to a singular aesthetic interpretation of the world, lacking the philosophical distance sought by architects. However, pragmatism might inform the reconciliation project as a helpful aesthetic outlook

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Tom Spector
Oklahoma State University

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