Halewood, Michael (2024) Whitehead, Dewey, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Experience and Our World(s). In: More-Than-Human Aesthetics: Venturing Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature. Policy Press, Bristol, pp. 29-41. ISBN 978-1529227789. Official URL: https://academic.oup.com/policy-press-scholarship-...
Halewood, Michael (2024) Whitehead, Dewey, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Experience and Our World(s). In: More-Than-Human Aesthetics: Venturing Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature. Policy Press, Bristol, pp. 29-41. ISBN 978-1529227789. Official URL: https://academic.oup.com/policy-press-scholarship-...
Halewood, Michael (2024) Whitehead, Dewey, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Experience and Our World(s). In: More-Than-Human Aesthetics: Venturing Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature. Policy Press, Bristol, pp. 29-41. ISBN 978-1529227789. Official URL: https://academic.oup.com/policy-press-scholarship-...
Abstract
This chapter uses the ideas of Dewey and Whitehead to attempt to reorient the role and status of the aesthetic. It argues that the aesthetic is not so much about questions of beauty and art but about perception and feeling. This involves a move beyond Kantian notions and a foray into Whitehead’s (metaphysical) placement of feeling and perception as more-than-human elements which suffuse existence. The abstraction involved in such an account is counterbalanced with Dewey’s insistence upon examples and the here-and-now, which also leads to a (brief) consideration of the relations of the aesthetic to capitalism.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | metaphysics, aesthetics, perception, Whitehead, Dewey, Kant, feelings, capitalism, entertainment |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology and Criminology, Department of |
| SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Feb 2026 15:29 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Feb 2026 15:29 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/37058 |
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