Abstract
In this chapter named More than an Impression: Dewey's Defence of Impressionist Criticism Ondřej Dadejík shows the way in which American philosopher John Dewey linked two indirectly related events. First, the emergence of Impressionism; and secondly, the controversy between judicial and impressionist criticism.
The main aim of this article is to show that the whole controversy disappears when we project it on the background created by Dewey's attempt to reconstruct the dualistic heritage of modern thought. The chapter shows that Dewey, on the one hand, builds on one of the constitutive problems of modern philosophy, that is, the question of the logic of judgments of taste, and on the other hand anticipates one of the significant contemporary theories, revising the tradition of modern aesthetics, aesthetics of atmospheres of German philosopher Gernot Böhme.