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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Bruce FlemingPublisher: University Press of America Imprint: University Press of America Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780761839163ISBN 10: 076183916 Pages: 180 Publication Date: 05 November 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPart 1 Preface Chapter 2 I: Individual and General Chapter 3 II: The Aesthetic Sense Inside Chapter 4 III: Public Rhythms Chapter 5 IV: The Aesthetic Sense Outside Chapter 6 V: Transitions Chapter 7 VI: Religion, Science, and the Aesthetic Sense Chapter 8 VII: Modernity and the Aesthetic Sense Chapter 9 VIII: Achieving Goals, Sort Of Part 10 Index Part 11 About the AuthorReviewsBruce Fleming (Professor of English, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland) focused upon how we should view the world around us and derive value from living fully in the present. Professor Fleming deftly considers basic answers to basic questions in an articulate and 'reader friendly' text making clear the value and meaning of becoming 'life aware' every minute of our waking day. The Aesthetic Sense of Life? is a cogent and persuasive argument that the meaning of our lives is to be found in the ordinary patterns and the multitude of small life experiences from which those patterns are derived. Indeed, that is our very awareness of the details of those patterns that create our aesthetic appreciation for the richness and meaning of the 'everyday.'--June 2008 The Midwest Book Review Bruce Fleming (Professor of English, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland) focused upon how we should view the world around us and derive value from living fully in the present. Professor Fleming deftly considers basic answers to basic questions in an articulate and 'reader friendly' text making clear the value and meaning of becoming 'life aware' every minute of our waking day. The Aesthetic Sense of Life? is a cogent and persuasive argument that the meaning of our lives is to be found in the ordinary patterns and the multitude of small life experiences from which those patterns are derived. Indeed, that is our very awareness of the details of those patterns that create our aesthetic appreciation for the richness and meaning of the 'everyday.' -- . * Midwest Book Review, June 2008 * Bruce Fleming (Professor of English, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland) focused upon how we should view the world around us and derive value from living fully in the present. Professor Fleming deftly considers basic answers to basic questions in an articulate and 'reader friendly' text making clear the value and meaning of becoming 'life aware' every minute of our waking day. The Aesthetic Sense of Life? is a cogent and persuasive argument that the meaning of our lives is to be found in the ordinary patterns and the multitude of small life experiences from which those patterns are derived. Indeed, that is our very awareness of the details of those patterns that create our aesthetic appreciation for the richness and meaning of the 'everyday.' -- . Midwest Book Review, June 2008 Bruce Fleming (Professor of English, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland) focused upon how we should view the world around us and derive value from living fully in the present. Professor Fleming deftly considers basic answers to basic questions in an articulate and 'reader friendly' text making clear the value and meaning of becoming 'life aware' every minute of our waking day. The Aesthetic Sense of Life? is a cogent and persuasive argument that the meaning of our lives is to be found in the ordinary patterns and the multitude of small life experiences from which those patterns are derived. Indeed, that is our very awareness of the details of those patterns that create our aesthetic appreciation for the richness and meaning of the 'everyday.' -- June 2008 Midwest Book Review Author InformationBruce Fleming is a professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. His most recent works include Annapolis Autumn: Life, Death and Literature at the U.S. Naval Academy (New Press, 2005) and Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash (Routledge, 2006). He has won an O. Henry award for short fiction and the Antioch Review Award for Distinguished Prose, a career award. Fleming is the author of a dozen books including the experimental novel Twilley, which critics compared to works by T.S. Eliot, Henry James, Proust, Thoreau, and David Lynch, and of a collection of dance essays called Sex, Art and Audience. His books for University Press of America include Art and Argument; Science and the Self; Sexual Ethics; and The New Tractatus, among others. He is a graduate of Haverford College, with subsequent degrees from the University of Chicago and Vanderbilt University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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