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8Beyond Aesthetics and Politics: "Philosophical and Axiological Studies on the Avant-Garde, Pragmatism, and Postmodernism" (edited book)Editions Rodopi. 2013.The book presents five philosophical and axiological studies devoted to the relationship between aesthetics and politics. It shows this relationship throughout the works of some avant-gardists, pragmatists, and postmodernists. It is also a voice in the discussion about the meaning of the fine arts and aesthetics in the context of the political aims and norms. This voice claims that the political dimension of art and aesthetics should be studied much more seriously than it has been till today, an…Read more
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19Literary Philosophy in Light of Richard Rorty's Ideas of Democratic Liberalism and Cultural Politics1In Jacquelyn Kegley & Krzyszof Piotr Skowronski (eds.), Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy, Lexington. 2013.
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3Aspectos ontológicos de la obra de arte literaria en Santayana. Un bosquejo introductorioTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 99-113. 2008.
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46George Herbert Mead in the Twenty-first Century (edited book)Lexington Press. 2013.This volume is composed of extended versions of selected papers presented at an international conference held in June 2011 at Opole University—the seventh in a series of annual American and European Values conferences organized by the Institute of Philosophy, Opole University, Poland. The papers were written independently with no prior guidelines other than the obvious need to address some aspect of George Herbert Mead’s work. While rooted in careful study of Mead’s original writings and transcr…Read more
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21Axiocentrism in Santayana and ElzenbergTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 39 (2). 2003.
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20Santayana and the Problem of AmericanizationTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40 (1). 2004.
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27Vital Liberties in American DemocracyTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40 (3). 2004.
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24American Heritage as a Source of ValuesTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 41 (2). 2005.
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8Some Notes on Transcendentalism and Pragmatism, While Re-reading Emerson's Society and Solitude (review)la Torre Del Virrey, Revista de Estudios Culturales 2 (Spring): 1-3. 2009.
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67Angus Kerr-Lawson, abulensean pragmatism, and the problem of valuesTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 45 (4). 2009.This paper deals with Angus Kerr-Lawson's interpretation of George Santayana's philosophy of values. I claim that Kerr-Lawson reads Santayana correctly; however, as regards axiology, he reads Santayana literally and misses Santayana's engagement with it. Santayana's engagement with the philosophy of values is clearly seen when we use axiological terms and problematics in approaching his thought.
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17The avant-garde’s visual arts in the context of Santayana’s idea of vital libertyHuman Affairs 22 (2): 142-160. 2012.In the present paper, the author looks at the political dimension of some trends in the visual arts within twentieth-century avant-garde groups (cubism, expressionism, fauvism, Dada, abstractionism, surrealism) through George Santayana’s idea of vital liberty. Santayana accused the avant-gardists of social and political escapism, and of becoming unintentionally involved in secondary issues. In his view, the emphasis they placed on the medium (or diverse media) and on treating it as an aim in its…Read more
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Ontological aspects of the literary works of art by Santayana. An introductory outlineTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.
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7Josiah Royce for the Twenty-First Century: Historical, Ethical, and Religious Interpretations (edited book)Lexington Books. 2012.The collection presents a variety of promising new directions in Royce scholarship from an international group of scholars, including historical reinterpretations, explorations of Royce's ethics of loyalty and religious philosophy, and contemporary applications of his ideas in psychology, the problem of reference, neo-pragmatism, and literary aesthetics.
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23Democratic values in the aesthetics of classic American pragmatismHuman Affairs 21 (4): 335-346. 2011.In the present paper an interpretation of the political dimension of pragmatic aesthetic reflection is proposed. The interconnection between politics and aesthetics in three classic American pragmatists: William James (1842–1910), John Dewey (1859–1952), and George Herbert Mead (1863–1931) is evoked. The author claims that by emphasizing the role of democratic values in philosophy and life, the classic American pragmatists encroach upon the field of the arts and aesthetics. Their emphasis put up…Read more
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23Review of H.G. Callaway (ed) R.W. Emerson, Society and Solitude, Twelve Chapters (review)la Torre Del Virrey, Revista de Estudios Culturales. 2008.Summing up, Society and Solitude needs re-reading, and the newly published edition, beautifully edited by H. G. Callaway, and provided with notes, philosophical commentaries, historical contextualization, indexes, bibliography, and Introduction—will serve the reader well with a better understanding of the original text and help us to apply Emerson’s ideas with reference to philosophical and Pragmatic considerations.