Journal of Aesthetic Education
August 8, 2026
Rebecca M. Taylor
Abstract:In this article, I call for a return to Plato’s conception of “education of the soul” through a new pedagogical framework, Represencing, that engages the transformative capacities of aesthetic experience. Philosophically grounded in the work of William James, John Dewey, and Maxine Greene, Re-presencing is a ritualized practice of heightened consciousness and deep inquiry with an...
Journal of Aesthetic Education
July 23, 2018
Hyunkyoung Shin
1 citation
Research Article| October 01 2018 The East Asian Literati Painting Theories of Sisŏhwa as a Contemplative Practice Hyunkyoung Shin Hyunkyoung Shin HyunKyoung Shin earned a PhD and an MED in art education, as well as an MFA in art from the University of Minnesota. She completed a DFA in Korean aesthetics from Busan University and holds a BFA in oriental painting from Seoul National University....
Journal of Aesthetic Education
March 1, 2014
Gregory Aisemberg
Abstract In this paper, I explore how John Dewey, through an application of his antiessentialist empirical naturalism, deconstructs the essentialist phenomenology of stasis as the dialectical development of preconceived notions constructed without any reference to aesthetic-mystical experience as it is lived. I endeavor to show that the only empirically justified phenomenological...
Journal of Aesthetic Education
2011
Bart Vandenabeele
3 citations
Schopenhauer on Sense Perception and Aesthetic Cognition Bart Vandenabeele (bio) Introduction In Schopenhauer’s view, the whole organic and inorganic world is ultimately governed by an insatiable, blind will. Life as a whole is purposeless: there is no ultimate goal or meaning, for the metaphysical will is only interested in manifesting itself in (or as) a myriad of phenomena, which we call the...
Journal of Aesthetic Education
2011
Eric Mullis
1 citation
Reviewed by: Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics Eric C. Mullis Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics, by Richard Shusterman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 239 pp., $20.00 paperback. One aspect of Richard Shusterman’s work is indicative of a broad movement to develop a robust philosophy of embodiment. Thinkers from diverse...
Journal of Aesthetic Education
October 1, 1974
Lawrence J. Dennis, J. Francis Powers
8 citations
John Dewey and Abraham Maslow do not hold similar philosophies. Dewey is a thorough-going pragmatist, while Maslow might be described as a naturalistic realist. Both place great reliance and faith in science as it bears on the problems of men and society, and a study of their writing reveals some notable similarities of thought and considerable similarity in outcomes. The most striking of these...