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Acknowledgments Like any complex work of art or argument, this book finds itself placed in a causal web that implicates many people. Whatever value it may possess was surely enabled by the help of many of my colleagues, friends, family members, students, and teachers. I thank my excellent mentors, Richard Shusterman and Paul Guyer, for their inspiration and guidance in pragmatism , aesthetics, and the art of being a great scholar. I only hope to someday come close to following their examples in argument and action. This work has benefited from other wonderful teachers and academic guides, from all the points in my maturation as an academic: Paul C. Taylor, Joseph Margolis , Shelley Wilcox, Rita Manning, Tom Leddy, Eleanor Wittrup, and Jim Heffernan. My colleagues in philosophy and communication, Roger Ames, Douglas Anderson, Gregory Pappas, John Gibson, William Keith, Paul Stob, Nathan Crick, Robert Danisch, Chris Russill, Peter Simonson, Crispin Sartwell, Larry Hickman, and many others are to be thanked for helping me refine my reading of Dewey. The individuals at The Pennsylvania State University Press must be thanked for their professionalism. Patrick Alexander, John Stuhr, and my anonymous reviewers have been particularly helpful to me as this book came into its final form. I have been blessed by supportive colleagues in communication studies at the University of Texas at Austin and in philosophy at the University of Texas-Pan American. I particularly wish to thank Barry Brummett, Richard Cherwitz, and Greg Gilson for their help, in small and large ways, in this project. This work has also benefited from the comments of my graduate students at Texas, including Danee Pye, Robert L. Mack, Roy Christopher, Matt Morris, and Joseph McGlynn. I have had the good fortune to test some of the fundamental ideas of this book in earlier publications. I would like to thank Rodopi Publishers for x Acknowledgments permission to include a significantly revised version of this essay as part of chapter 4: ‘‘Constructing a Deweyan Theory of Moral Cultivation,’’ Contemporary Pragmatism 3 (2006): 99–116. Thanks to Purdue University Press for permission to include a revised and extended version of this article in the extensive argument of chapter 5: ‘‘Dewey on Art as Evocative Communication ,’’ Education and Culture 23 (2007): 6–26. Finally, Pennsylvania State University Press is to be thanked for permission to include revised and extended versions of these two articles as portions of chapters 6 and 7: ‘‘Pragmatism and Orientation,’’ Journal of Speculative Philosophy 20 (2006): 287– 307, and ‘‘John Dewey and the Question of Artful Communication,’’ Philosophy and Rhetoric 41 (2008): 153–83. This book has benefited from the comments that these earlier expositions of my ideas have provoked, and I thank all those who have helped me refine my ideas into more fully formed positions. The relationships undergirding projects like the present one are not only academic in nature. Many friends and family members must be thanked. All of my family, those still living and those now deceased, have helped me to become the sort of person that I am. The love and support of my parents, Sandra and Herman Stroud, has always been plentiful, and I cannot imagine undertaking the writing of this book without that foundation. They cannot be adequately thanked for what they have done and continue to do as caring parents. Last, but certainly not least, I must thank my wife and muse, Natalie Stroud. Talia has been there since this project was a mere thought barely expressed in words, and her support will be the key to my future efforts to go beyond this project. Her example in personal and academic matters gives me hope that my ruminations about artful living do apply to life. ...

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