# Dewey’s Aesthetics  ## Metadata - Author: [[Leddy, Tom]] - Full Title: Dewey’s Aesthetics - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: Dewey's aesthetics, as explored in his book Art as Experience, are rooted in naturalism and emphasize the continuity between aesthetic experience and other forms of experience. He critiques the idea of art as something separate from everyday life and argues for the integration of art into common experiences. Dewey's concept of aesthetic experience involves a balance between activity and passivity and a focus on the internal qualities of the experience. He also examines the formal features of aesthetic objects and discusses artistic expression and the significance of art in culture. Dewey's aesthetics have received criticism, but his ideas continue to be influential in the philosophy of education. - URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dewey-aesthetics/ ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > From a Deweyan viewpoint, aesthetic experience, then, has roughly the following structure. The experience is set off by some factors, such as opening a book, directing a first glance at a painting, beginning to listen to a piece of music, entering a natural environment or a building, or beginning a meal or a conversation. As aesthetic experience is temporal, the material of the experience does not remain unchanged, but the elements initiating the experience, like reading the first lines of a book or hearing the first chord of a symphony, merge into new ones as the experience proceeds and complex relationships are formed between its past and newer phases. When these different parts form a distinctive kind of orderly developing unity that stands out from the general experiential stream of our lives, the experience in question is aesthetic. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hpsf72g6v9x3a0qrse3vdtne))