ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Dewey’s concept of unity as central to aesthetic experience. Unity is presented as a felt integration of emotional, intellectual, and practical dimensions. This chapter critiques Dewey’s emphasis on immediacy, proposing a processual understanding of unity. Through the example of dancing Argentino tango, this chapter elucidates how unity emerges from intense awareness-in-action of discrete elements such as movement, music, partner interaction, and energy and culminates in a qualitative whole forming the experience of performative beauty.
