the object-oriented Dewey

It’s a passage from Dewey that I like for obvious reasons, and also another of those passages that might conceivably have been written (with slightly different terminology) by Merleau-Ponty. It also contains a couple of brief Latour Litanies:

“…an artist uses color to define an object, and accomplishes this individualization so completely that color and object fuse. The color is of the object and the object in all its qualities is expressed through color. For it is objects that glow–gems and sunlight; and it is objects that are splendid–crowns, robes, sunlight.”

Emphasis here is Dewey’s own. From Page 211 of Art as Experience.

My verdict remains the same: Dewey is one of those philosophers who ought to have written a bit more densely. Density isn’t always bad, since it at least has the merit of letting the reader see what your main points are.