Pragmatism and Spirituality in Anthropological Aesthetics
Anthropological aesthetics as a sphere forming a part of culture is understood as a way of life. A special role of aesthetics originates in Dewey’s pragmatic philosophy, enriched with concepts indicating the existence of its multiplicity (Glassie, Cliffor
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Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society
Ananta Kumar Giri Editor
Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society Border Crossings, Transformations and Planetary Realizations
Editor Ananta Kumar Giri Madras Institute of Development Studies Chennai, India
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Foreword
Pragmatism has fallen on bad days. As commonly used in our time, the term tends to stand for a down-to-earth outlook, for a pliant accommodation to “the way things are”—or the way things are assumed to be in a given context. The only yardstick accepted by devotees of pragmatism is hard-nosed compliance with factual conditions, a compliance which alone can insure success of one’s chosen aims. What is bypassed by this stance is the plethora of possibilities which can be pursued in response to prevailing conditions. What is completely sidelined is the ethical quality of a chosen course of action—a neglect which rules out of order any concern with spirituality and creative human imagination. The decay of pragmatism just described is the result of many factors, above all the rise of “scientism” and “positivism” during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. What is commonly meant by positivism is the exclusive reliance on factually ascertained knowledge, a reliance which necessarily shuns any kind of “negativity” as wel
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