The Educational Value of Dwelling
A Path Through the Philosophy of John Dewey
Keywords:
Aesthetics, Experience, Habit, Pragmatism, Technology
Abstract
This article constitutes a theoretical reflection from an educational perspective that places emphasis on the notion of inhabiting in the present technological society. The discussion is based on John Dewey's pragmatism, particularly on the idea of technology resulting from the fundamental tenets of his conception of experience and aesthetics. A key element is the notion of habit, through which we manage our relationship with reality or inhabit it. Starting from an examination of technology in relation to the Deweyan notion of experience, the discussion moves towards the importance of the aesthetic dimension to come, finally, to some considerations on the meaning of habits in education and human existence.
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Dewey, J. (1899/1976). The School and Society. In J.A. Boydston e Joe R. Burnett (eds.), The Middle Works 1899-1924, vol. 1. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. (Tr. it. Scuola e società. A cura di E. Codignola e L. Borghi. Firenze: La Nuova Italia 1993).
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Dewey, J. (1934/1987). Art as Experience. In J.A. Boydston e A. Kaplan (eds.), The Later Works 1925-1953, vol. 10. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. (Tr. it. Arte come esperienza. A cura di G. Matteucci, Palermo: Aesthetica Edizioni 2012).
Dewey, J. (1938/1986). Logic, the Theory of Inquiry. In J.A. Boydston e E. Nagel (eds.), The Later Works 1925-1953, vol. 12. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. (Tr. it. Logica, teoria dell’indagine. A cura di A. Visalberghi, Torino: Einaudi 1949).
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Garrison, J., Neubert, S., Reich, K. (2012). John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education: An Introduction and Recontextualization for Our Times. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hénin, S. (2019). AI. Intelligenza artificiale tra incubo e sogno. Milano: Hoepli.
Hickman, L. (1990). John Dewey’s Pragmatic Technology. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. (Tr. it. La tecnologia pragmatica di John Dewey. Roma: Armando 2000).
Ingold, T. (2013). Making. Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture. Abington-New York: Routledge. (Tr. it. Making. Antropologia, archeologia, arte e architettura. Milano: Raffaello Cortina 2019).
James, C. (2015). Habits of Improvisation: Towards a Freedom to Intelligently and Artfully Engage in an Uncertain World. Philosophy of Education, 71: 420–423.
Leddy, T. (2021). Dewey’s Aesthetics, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, online.
MacMullan, T. (2013). The Fly Wheel of Society. Habit and Social Meliorism in the Pragmatist Tradition. In T. Sparrow and A. Hutchinson (eds.), A History of Habit from Aristotle to Bordieu. Lanham-Plymouth: Lexington Books.
Maffei, L. (2022). Patologie della modernità. In L. Boi, U. Curi, L. Maffei, L. Miraglia (eds.), In difesa dell’umano. Problemi e prospettive, vol. 1. Napoli: Edizioni Vivarium Novum.
Nussbaum, M. C. (2009). Tagore, Dewey, and the Imminent Demise of Liberal Education. In Harvey Siegel (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education, Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press.
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Quintarelli, S. (2020). Intelligenza artificiale. Cos’è davvero, come funziona, che effetti avrà. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri.
Ryan, F. (2011). Seeing Together: Mind, Matter, and the Experimental Outlook of John Dewey and Arthur F. Bentley. Great Barrington: The American Institute for Economic Research.
Saito, Y. (2017). Aesthetics of the Familiar. Everyday Life and World-Making. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sennett, R. (2008). The Craftsman. London: Penguin Books. (Tr. it. L’uomo artigiano. Milano: Feltrinelli, 2008).
Zuboff, S. (2019). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. New York: Public Affairs. (Tr. it. Il capitalismo della sorveglianza. Roma: Luiss University Press 2019).
Published
2024-07-28
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Fiore, A. (2024). The Educational Value of Dwelling. Critical Hermeneutics, 8(1), 191-212. https://doi.org/10.13125/CH/6297
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