"Bethany Henning argues that within the naturalistic strains of American philosophy, there is an implicit theory of the unconscious that finds its fullest expression within the work of John Dewey. Although the unconscious contributes to all experience, it plays a principal role in experiences that are emphatically aesthetic"--.

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments‌‌
• Introduction
• The Aesthetic Confrontation with Nature
• The American Unconscious
• The Feel of the Flesh, the Emergence of Mind
• ‌‌‌Eros and the Primacy of the Aesthetic
• Uncomfortable Art and American Trauma
• From the Organic Plentitude of Being
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author