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18Home Alone? Self and Other in Somaesthetics and "Performing Live"The Journal of Aesthetic Education 36 (4): 102. 2002.
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18Goodman on the Work of Art: An Ontological OmissionAuslegung 8 122-130. 1981.This paper shows that goodman's influential theory of the work of art's identity suffers from what for him is a serious omission, the lack of a nominalistic formulation of his definitions of the works of the various arts. i examine the possible nominalistic translations of goodman's platonistic definitions and show that they would either be unsuitable to goodman's views or unacceptable "simpliciter". among the possibilities considered are type-individuals, superindividuals, and multiply-referent…Read more
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14Feeling Beyond the Text: Reflections on The Rorty ReaderContemporary Pragmatism 8 (2): 205-212. 2011.Examining key themes presented in the excellent Rorty Reader, this essay also argues that Rorty's philosophical import extends beyond the propositional content of his texts. After indicating how Rorty's central philosophical stance of anti-representationalism is expressed in his aestheticist advocacy of a pluralist literary culture and his theory that ethics and moral progress can be properly based only on sentiments rather than rationality, the paper explains why his philosophy should have ther…Read more
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169Form and Funk: The aesthetic challenge of popular artBritish Journal of Aesthetics 31 (3): 213-213. 1991.
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14Ennobling Love and Erotic Elevation: A Response to Six Readings of Ars EroticaEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 5 (4): 156-170. 2021.Preview: In various guises and cultures, the theme of elevating, ennobling love is a recurrent topos in the premodern erotic theory my book traces. Freed from Plato’s problematic dualistic denigration of the body as prison of the soul and from the modern aesthetic prejudice of disinterestedness, Ars Erotica recaptures the valuable core of ennobling desire by showing how a new somaesthetic approach to sex could channel the power of eros to cultivate qualities of courtesy, grace, skill, self-maste…Read more
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53Enhanced cognition, ethics, and some problems of self-knowledgeJournal of Speculative Philosophy 25 (1): 3-21. 2011.Advances in neuroscience and its related technologies promise significant forms of cognitive enhancement, chiefly through the development of drugs, genetic engineering and screening, and electronic devices for augmenting brain functions. Such advances, however, raise a complex cluster of ethical questions that should increasingly concern us in the future as these technologies become more prevalent, powerful, and wide ranging in their effects. Most ethical dilemmas and debates about enhanced cogn…Read more
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4Enhanced Cognition, Ethics, and Some Problems of Self-KnowledgeJournal of Speculative Philosophy 25 (1): 3-21. 2011.
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11Etica ed estetica: somaestetica e l'arte di vivereLebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience 3 8-28. 2013.Ethics and aesthetics tend to be sharply distinguished and frequently opposed as rival realms of value. The apparent conflict between them is discomforting for artists and theorists who seek to combine aesthetic values and ethical aims in their work. My article strives to ease this theoretical tension in two ways. First, through a genealogical analysis of the complexity of our concepts of ethics and aesthetics, I argue that, in some of their historical conceptions, they display considerable conv…Read more
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19Die Stimmung der Tatkraft und ihr Denken: Pragmatismus als eine Philosophie des FühlensDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 61 (5-6): 643-664. 2013.Pragmatism is usually understood as a philosophy defined through action, but philosophical thought is typically contrasted with action. Where do we get the psychic energy for action, if thought is not its effective motor? Affect is the pragmatist answer proposed here. Our passionate nature, our feelings, emotions, or mood provide the dynamic trigger for action, including the action involved in cognition and inquiry. This paper explores the crucial, multiple cognitive roles that affect plays in p…Read more
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Der schweigende, hinkende Korper der PhilosophieDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 51 (5): 703. 2003.
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4Danto et l’esthétique pragmatisteCahiers Philosophiques 144 (1): 27-37. 2016.Il semble évident que la philosophie de l’art développée par Danto s’oppose en tout point à l’esthétique pragmatiste. Non pas que Danto ait été un commentateur critique de Peirce ou de Dewey, auxquels il se réfère finalement fort peu. Mais le renouveau pragmatiste de l’esthétique, quand il remet au premier plan la notion d’expérience esthétique ou quand il cherche à restaurer la continuité entre l’art et la vie, s’est quant à lui en bonne partie explicitement construit contre l’œuvre de Danto. S…Read more
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16Dance as Art, Theatre, and PracticeMidwest Studies in Philosophy 44 (1): 143-160. 2019.Midwest Studies In Philosophy, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 143-160, December 2019.
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96Dewey's art as experience : The psychological backgroundJournal of Aesthetic Education 44 (1). 2010.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Dewey's Art as ExperienceThe Psychological BackgroundRichard Shusterman (bio)IThe year 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of John Dewey's birth and also the 75th anniversary of the publication of his aesthetic masterpiece Art as Experience—a book that has been extremely influential within the field of aesthetics, not only in philosophical aesthetics and aesthetic education but also in the arts themselves.1 I am honored to commemorate t…Read more
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54Deconstruction and analysis: Confrontation and convergenceBritish Journal of Aesthetics 26 (4): 311-327. 1986.
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47 Chopsticks and the Haptic Aesthetics of EatingIn Eva Kit Wah Man & Jeffrey Petts (eds.), Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: East-West Studies in Contemporary Living, Amsterdam University Press. pp. 139-152. 2023.
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44Back to the Future: Aesthetics TodayNordic Journal of Aesthetics 23 (43). 2012.This paper originated as the keynote address at the conference “Aesthetics Today” organized by the Finnish Society of Aesthetics to mark its 40th anniversary and was delivered at the University of Helsinki on March 1, 2012. Written for that particular occasion the sense of an oral presentation has been maintained. Shusterman’s point of departure is the thesis that contemporary aesthetics can be characterized by a number of leading themes that mark a return to older aesthetic perspectives, after …Read more
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13Book Review: How the Body Shapes the Mind (review)Theory, Culture and Society 24 (1): 152-156. 2007.
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1Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspective for Critical TheoryJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47 (2): 182-184. 1989.
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