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Book SynopsisThis edited collection provides an in-depth and wide-ranging exploration of pragmatist philosopher Richard Shusterman’s distinctive project of “somaesthetics,” devoted not only to better understanding bodily experience but also to greater mastery of somatic perception, performance, and presentation. Against contemporary trends that focus narrowly on conceptual and computational thinking, Shusterman returns philosophy to what is most fundamental—the sentient, expressive, human body with its creations of living beauty. Twelve scholars here provide penetrating critical analyses of Shusterman on ontology, perception, language, literature, culture, politics, aesthetics, cuisine, music, and the visual arts, including films of his work in performance art.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Jerold J. Abrams part 1 Pragmatism and Somaesthetics 1 Shusterman’s Pragmatist Philosophy Stefán Snævarr 2 From Pragmatism to Somaesthetics as Philosophy Alexander Kremer 3 Somaesthetics, Somapower, and the Microphysics of Emancipation Leszek Koczanowicz 4 Living Beauty, Rethinking Rap Revisiting Shusterman’s Philosophy of Hip Hop Max Ryynänen 5 Somaesthetics and Pathic Aesthetics Tonino Griffero 6 Eating as an Aesthetic Activity Somaesthetics and Food Studies Dorota Koczanowicz part 2 Performative Philosophy and the Man in Gold 7 Somaesthetics, Photography, and the Man in Gold Jerold J. Abrams 8 An Exquisitely Beautiful Longing A Lacanian Reading of The Adventures of the Man in Gold Diane Richard-Allerdyce 9 Shusterman as Philosopher and the Man in Gold Yvonne Bezrucka 10 The Golden Turn in Shusterman’s Somaesthetics The Magical Figure of the Man in Gold Else Marie Bukdahl 11 On Shusterman’s Somaesthetic Practice The Case of the Man in Gold Yang Lu 12 Somaesthetics and Cinema The Man in Gold in the Film Walk the Golden Night Jerold J. Abrams part 3 Shusterman in His Own Words 13 Somaesthetics, Pragmatism, and the Man in Gold Remarks on the Preceding Chapters Richard Shusterman 14 On the Path of Somaesthetics An Interview with Richard Shusterman Yanping Gao Index
