Cure for Kant: Art as Experience as One of the Four Fundamental Texts in Aesthetics

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Abstract The article argues that Dewey's Art as Experience is one of just four foundational texts in Western aesthetics, which break down into two oppositions: Plato's Republic versus Aristotle's Poetics and Kant's Critique of Judgment versus Art as Experience. It points out that Dewey's book, after decades of neglect, has helped give rise to a number of rich aesthetic subdisciplines, including everyday aesthetics, environmental aesthetics, somaesthetics, and political aesthetics.