{"product_id":"peace-in-motion-john-dewey-and-the-aesthetics-of-well-being","title":"Peace in Motion","description":"In this book Yoram Lubling and Eric Evans offer a Deweyan reconstruction of our philosophical understanding of well-being. They begin with Dewey’s critique of the «philosophical fallacy» to examine the legitimacy and value of theories of well-being offered by traditional philosophy. However, such theories fail to provide an authentic account of well-being due to a false understanding of \u003ci\u003eexperience\u003c\/i\u003e as either epistemic or cognitive. Next, using Dewey’s theory of experience, they reconstruct «happiness» as the target for evaluation of well-being. This leads them to reject the traditional view of a private encapsulated self, and to offer in its place a \u003ci\u003etransactionally situated self\u003c\/i\u003e which is an embodied, enculturated agent. Through their emphasis on the importance of the qualitative aspects of Dewey’s understanding of a situation, the \u003ci\u003epervasive quality of the situation\u003c\/i\u003e emerges as the most plausible criterion for the evaluation of well-being. The authors use Dewey’s theories of inquiry, ethics, value and art to establish the naturalistic conditions under which such \u003ci\u003epervasive quality\u003c\/i\u003e enters into a situation as either settled or unsettled, in other words, as peace in motion. Consequently, a \u003ci\u003eproblematic situation\u003c\/i\u003e becomes the primary condition under which all inquiry initiates whether it is in the context of science, ethics, values, art or ordinary living. Lubling and Evans conclude that a Deweyan account of well-being involves \u003ci\u003eembodied knowing\u003c\/i\u003e instead of the traditional view of cognitive knowledge. By using such an account, it is possible to explain the conditions and mechanisms under which well-being contributes to the enlargement and enrichment of individual and collective human experience.","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54188783763800,"sku":null,"price":86.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781433121234.jpg?v=1777087824","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/peace-in-motion-john-dewey-and-the-aesthetics-of-well-being","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}