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Somaesthetics, pragmatism, and the man in gold : remarks on the preceding chaptersIn Jerold J. Abrams (ed.), Shusterman’s Somaesthetics: From Hip Hop Philosophy to Politics and Performance Art, Brill. 2022.
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The Pragmatist Aesthetics of William JamesIn Walter B. Gulick & Gary Slater (eds.), American aesthetics: theory and practice, State University of New York Press. pp. 93-109. 2020.
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2Sex and SomaestheticsIn James Behuniak (ed.), Appreciating the Chinese Difference: Engaging Roger T. Ames on Methods, Issues, and Roles, Suny Press. pp. 91-110. 2018.
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15Autour du « monde de l'art »Cahiers Philosophiques 131 (4): 108-128. 2012.Dans le cadre des rencontres Contested Territories : Conversations in Practice qu’elle organise en partenariat avec la Chelsea School of Art and Design et la Naked Punch Review, la Tate Modern a réuni le 2 février 2006 Arthur Danto, Thierry de Duve et Richard Shusterman pour une table ronde portant sur le célèbre article publié par Danto en 1964, « Le monde de l’art 1 », et les questions qu’il continue de soulever. Voici la traduction de leurs exposés et de leurs échanges.
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27Art, Eros, and Liberation: Aesthetic Education between Pragmatism and Critical TheoryThe Journal of Aesthetic Education 58 (1): 1-24. 2024.After showing how pragmatist aesthetics and Marcuse's critical theory affirm aesthetic education as key to transforming society toward greater freedom, equality, pleasure, and fulfillment, I compare the ways these two approaches differently perceive the scope and role of aesthetics in such transformation. Whereas Marcuse identifies the aesthetic dimension with the realm of high art, pragmatism understands this dimension far more broadly to include the popular arts and somaesthetic arts of living…Read more
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1L’expérience esthétique : de l’analyse à l’érosNouvelle Revue d'Esthétique 24 (2): 111-128. 2020.Cet article éclaire par leur analyse différentes conceptions de l’expérience esthétique qui ont joué un rôle significatif dans la philosophie de l’art et de l’esthétique. Cette analyse approfondit mon étude antérieure des caractéristiques hédoniques, évaluatives, phénoménologiques, sémantiques et définitionnelles du modèle traditionnellement dominant de l’expérience esthétique et s’élargit à des critères pertinents supplémentaires pour évaluer les différentes fonctions et valeurs de l’expérience…Read more
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5La modernité en questions: de Richard Rorty à Jürgen Habermas: actes de la décade de Cerisy-la-Salle, 2-11 juillet 1993 (edited book, review)Cerf. 1998.Jürgen Habermas, philosophe allemand né en 1929, et Richard Rorty, philosophe américain né en 1931, n'ont pas la même conception de la modernité. L'un propose de reprendre le projet des Lumières afin d'atteindre la modernité alors que l'autre affirme justement le contraire. C'est pourquoi les participants à ces actes ont décidé de se référer à ces notions philosophiques pour présenter la modernité telle que nous la vivons.
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16Ars Erotica: A Philosophy of SomaestheticsCambridge University Press. 2021.The term ars erotica refers to the styles and techniques of lovemaking with the honorific title of art. But in what sense are these practices artistic and how do they contribute to the aesthetics and ethics of self-cultivation in the art of living? In this book, Richard Shusterman offers a critical, comparative analysis of the erotic theories proposed by the most influential premodern cultural traditions that shaped our contemporary world. Beginning with ancient Greece, whose god of desiring lov…Read more
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22Bodies in the Streets: The Somaesthetics of City Life (edited book)Brill. 2019.Thirteen original essays explore the qualities and challenges of urban life (in Europe, Asia, and the Americas) from a variety of disciplinary perspectives that illustrate the aesthetic, cultural, and political roles of bodies in the city streets.
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Teaching PhilosophyContinuum. 2009.In the current academic climate, teaching is often seen as secondary to research. Teaching Philosophy seeks to bring teaching philosophy higher on the academic agenda.An international team of contributors, all of whom share the view that philosophy is a subject that can transform students, offers practical guidance and advice for teachers of philosophy. The book suggests ways in which the teaching of philosophy at undergraduate level might be facilitated. Some of the essays place the emphasis on…Read more
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30The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke: A Reader on Value Theory, Aesthetics, Community, Culture, Race, and Education (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1999.In its comprehensive overview of Alain Locke's pragmatist philosophy this book captures the radical implications of Locke's approach within pragmatism, the critical temper embedded in Locke's works, the central role of power and empowerment of the oppressed and the concept of broad democracy Locke employed
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Aesthetic experienceIn Heather Dyke (ed.), Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy, Routledge. 2007.
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17Philosophy and the art of writingRoutledge. 2022.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.
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114Entertainment: A question for aestheticsBritish Journal of Aesthetics 43 (3): 289-307. 2003.Underlying the stubborn hierarchical dichotomy between high and popular art, there is a far more basic contrast at work—art versus entertainment. Yet the complex network of language games deploying these concepts reveals that entertainment is not simply contrasted to art but often identified with art as an allied or subsuming category. The arts are themselves sometimes described as forms of entertainment. Because the concept of entertainment is deeply and complexly related to the concept of art,…Read more
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1Art as ReligionIn Mark Rollins (ed.), Danto and His Critics, Wiley-blackwell. 1993.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: Danto's Philosophical Depth Encountering Danto and Religion Art and Religion Transfigurations: Catholic, Pragmatist, and Zen.
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2Pragmatism between Art and LifeIn Lydia Goehr & Jonathan Gilmore (eds.), A Companion to Arthur C. Danto, Wiley. 2021.Arthur Danto was one of the three persons, along with Richard Rorty and Pierre Bourdieu, who made the author's career in pragmatism possible, and thus helped to revive pragmatist aesthetics in the 1990s. Despite his generosity toward pragmatist aesthetics, Danto opposes some of its key views. The first important difference concerns Danto's essential emphasis on a sharp division between art and life, the artworld and the real world, or as he puts it in one chapter title, between “works of art and…Read more
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3Philosophy as a Way of Life: As Textual and More Than Textual PracticeIn James M. Ambury, Tushar Irani & Kathleen Wallace (eds.), Philosophy as a way of life: historical, contemporary, and pedagogical perspectives, Wiley. 2020-10-05.Philosophy is typically identified with the textual practices of reading and writing and oral dialogue. It has also claimed to be an entire way of life, an art of living dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom and thus to the practices that such pursuit should entail. This chapter probes to what extent philosophy as a practice or art of living requires a literary or more generally textual form. It also considers why it should not confine itself to the limits of discourse. It argues that if philosophy…Read more
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21The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers
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15Winckelmann on Taste: A Somaesthetic PerspectiveJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76 (2): 175-186. 2018.
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9William James, Somatic Introspection, and Care of the SelfPhilosophical Forum 36 (4): 419-440. 2005.
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8Wolfgang Fritz Haug. Critique of Commodity Aesthetics: Appearance, Sexuality and Advertising in Capitalist SocietyJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 45 (3): 319-320. 1987.
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62Wittgenstein and critical reasoningPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (1): 91-110. 1986.
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58Thinking through the body, educating for the humanities: A plea for somaestheticsJournal of Aesthetic Education 40 (1): 1-21. 2006.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Thinking Through the Body, Educating for the Humanities:A Plea for SomaestheticsRichard Shusterman (bio)IWhat are the humanities, and how should they be cultivated? With respect to this crucial question, opinions differ as to how widely the humanities should be construed and pursued. Initially connoting the study of Greek and Roman classics, the concept now more generally covers arts and letters, history, and philosophy.1 But does it…Read more
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