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Philosophy and literature enjoy a close, complex relationship. Elucidating the connections between these two fields, this book examines the ways philosophy deploys literary means to advance its practice, particularly as a way of life that extends beyond literary forms and words into physical deeds, nonlinguistic expression, and subjective moods and feelings.Exploring thinkers from Socrates and Confucius to Foucault and Simone de Beauvoir, Rich...

Applying contemporary pragmatism to the crucial question of how philosophy can help us live better, Shusterman develops his distinctive aesthetic model of philosophical living that includes politics, somatics, and ethnicity, while critically engaging the rival views of Dewey, Wittgenstein, and Foucault, as well as Rorty, Putnam, Goodman, Habermas, and Cavell.

This book is for students and researchers in the fields of philosophy, sexuality and gender studies, aesthetics, and comparative culture and religious studies. It examines erotic theory in the major pre-modern cultural and religious traditions that shaped our modern views of love and lovemaking.

This book examines the ways philosophy deploys literary means to advance its practice, particularly as a way of life that extends beyond literary forms and words into physical deeds, nonlinguistic expression, and subjective moods and feelings.

This book is for students and researchers in the fields of philosophy, sexuality and gender studies, aesthetics, and comparative culture and religious studies. It examines erotic theory in the major pre-modern cultural and religious traditions that shaped our modern views of love and lovemaking.

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Was bedeutet es, Philosoph zu sein? In Shustermans Werk lebt die uralte Idee von Philosophie als einer bewußten Lebenspraxis, die ein Leben voller Schönheit und Glück für die sie Praktizierenden mit sich bringt, wieder auf, eine Idee, die er bis in die Antike zurückverfolgt. Selbst wenn wir bezweifeln, daß jede Lebenskunst eine umfassende philosophische Theorie in sich birgt, und jede Theorie eine Lebensweise ausdrückt, so sollten wir dennoch ...

This essay collection explores the crucial connections between aesthetic experience and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. After examining philosophical accounts of embodiment and aesthetic experience, the essays apply somaesthetic theory to the diverse fine arts and the art of living.

Applying contemporary pragmatism to the crucial question of how philosophy can help us live better, Shusterman develops his distinctive aesthetic model of philosophical living that includes politics, somatics, and ethnicity, while critically engaging the rival views of Dewey, Wittgenstein, and Foucault, as well as Rorty, Putnam, Goodman, Habermas, and Cavell.

Performing Live defends the abiding power of aesthetic experience by exploring its diverse roles, methods, and meanings. Ranging from rap, techno, and country music to cinema, cyberspace, and urban design, Richard Shusterman develops his radical theory of "somaesthetics, " charting the complex network of bodily arts so prominent in contemporary life and self-styling. By blending concrete aesthetic analysis with insightful social critique, Shus...

In seinem neuen Buch geht Richard Shusterman den vielfältigen Formen nach, in denen wir Erfahrungen der Leiblichkeit machen. Diese Erfahrungen sind nicht auf den in der Philosophie traditionell eng bestimmten Bereich der Ästhetik beschränkt, sondern stellen ein konstitutives Merkmal sowohl der populären Kunst als auch der Alltagskultur und des Lebensstils dar. Dementsprechend beinhaltet das Buch ein doppeltes Plädoyer: für einen erweiterten Be...

A richly rewarding vision of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, with fourteen essays by the originator of the field.

A richly rewarding vision of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, with fourteen essays by the originator of the field.

In this volume, a team of internationally respected contributors theorize the concept of aesthetic experience and its value. Exposing and expanding our restricted cultural and intellectual presuppositions of what constitutes aesthetic experience, the book aims to re-explore and affirm the place of aesthetic experience--in its evaluative, phenomenological and transformational sense--not only in relation to art and artists but to our inner and s...

This much acclaimed book has emerged as neo-pragmatism's most significant contribution to contemporary aesthetics. By articulating a deeply embodied notion of aesthetic experience and the art of living, and by providing a compellingly rigorous defense of popular art--crowned by a pioneer study of hip hop--Richard Shusterman reorients aesthetics towards a fresher, more relevant, and socially progressive agenda. The second edition contains an in...

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A paradox of surface and depth pervades the field of aesthetics. How can art's surface meanings and qualities be properly appreciated without understanding the cultural context that shapes their creation and perception? But exploring such underlying cultural conditions challenges perception of those immediate qualities and meanings of aesthetic surface that constitute the captivating power of art. If aesthetics is both surface and depth, impas...

Shusterman argues that improved body consciousness can relieve many problems and enhance knowledge, performance, and pleasure.

This much acclaimed book has emerged as neo-pragmatism's most significant contribution to contemporary aesthetics. By articulating a deeply embodied notion of aesthetic experience and the art of living, and by providing a compellingly rigorous defense of popular art¿crowned by a pioneer study of hip hop¿Richard Shusterman reorients aesthetics towards a fresher, more relevant, and socially progressive agenda. The second edition contains an intr...