1st Edition
A Metaphysics for the Liberal Arts Process, Quality, and Continuity
Preface A
Preface B
Part I: The Role of Quality in Static and Process Metaphysics
Chapter 1 Dualistic Metaphysics
Chapter 2 Process Metaphysics
Part II: Conserving the Liberal Arts amid the Crisis of Narrow Instrumentalism
Chapter 3 Reactionary Models of Liberal Arts Education
Chapter 4 Michael Oakeshott’s Conservatism in Liberal Arts Education
Chapter 5 Pragmatism in Liberal Arts Education
Chapter 6 Radical Philosophies of Liberal Arts Education
Part III: The Work of Art and Qualitative Experience
Chapter 7 Conservative Approaches to Art
Chapter 8 Radical Philosophies of Art
Chapter 9 Pragmatism and Art as Experience
Conclusion: Quality and Continuity in Metaphysics and the Liberal Arts
Biography
Bethany Henning is Assistant Professor of philosophy at the College of St. Scholastica, USA.
Seth Vannatta is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Morgan State University, USA.
“In bringing together liberal arts and liberal education with a pragmatist perspective, this book makes an important contribution to the professional literature, strengthening connections between sociological context and epistemological schema.”
- Dr. Neil Hooley, Honorary Fellow, College of Arts & Education, Victoria University Melbourne
“This [volume] imparts a creatively traditionalist “conservative” aspect to pragmatism that has never been properly acknowledged much less addressed. Identifying pragmatism’s “non-reactionary” conservative allies while distinguishing them from “reactionary conservatives” is a much-needed contribution to the literature.
- Jim Garrison, Professor Emeritus, Virginia Tech
