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The object of literary criticism
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ISBN: 3884791222 9783884791226 Year: 1984 Volume: 29 Publisher: Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann,

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Thinking through the body : essays in somaesthetics
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ISBN: 9781107019065 9781107698505 1107698502 9781139094030 9781139526098 113952609X 1139094033 1107019060 1139540084 1316089762 1139531956 1139528483 1139530763 1283637472 1139527290 9781139528481 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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This book provides a richly rewarding vision of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. Composed of fourteen wide-ranging but finely integrated essays by Richard Shusterman, the originator of the field, Thinking through the Body explains the philosophical foundations of somaesthetics and applies its insights to central issues in ethics, education, cultural politics, consciousness studies, sexuality and the arts. Integrating Western philosophy, cognitive science and somatic methodologies with classical Asian theories of body, mind and action, these essays probe the nature of somatic existence and the role of body consciousness in knowledge, memory and behavior. Deploying somaesthetic perspectives to analyze key aesthetic concepts (such as style and the sublime), he offers detailed studies of embodiment in drama, dance, architecture and photography. The volume also includes somaesthetic exercises for the classroom and explores the ars erotica as an art of living.

Pragmatist aesthetics : living beauty, rethinking art
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ISBN: 0847697649 0847697657 1299794904 1461641179 9781461641179 9780847697656 9780847697649 Year: 2000 Publisher: Lanham, Maryland ; Oxford, England : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,

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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 introduction where Shusterman responds to his critics, and it concludes with an added chapter that formulates his novel notion of somaesthetics.


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Analytic aesthetics
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ISBN: 0631162534 9780631162537 Year: 1989 Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell,

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Performing live : aesthetic alternatives for the ends of art
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ISBN: 0801437539 0801486505 9780801437533 9780801486500 1501718169 Year: 2000 Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell university press,

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Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by visions of its end and lamentations of decline. Defining the very notions of art and the aesthetic as special products of Western modernity, they suggest that postmodern challenges to traditional high culture pose a devastating danger to art's future. Richard Shusterman's new book cuts through the seductive confusions of these views by tracing the earthy roots of aesthetic experience and showing how the recent flourishing of aesthetic forms outside modernity's sacralized realm of fine art evince the persistent presence of an artistic impulse far deeper and more durable than the modernist moment. Performing Live defends the abiding power of aesthetic experience by exploring its diverse roles, methods, and meanings, especially in fields marginal to traditional aesthetics but now most vibrantly alive in today's culture and new media. Ranging from rap, techno, and country music to cinema, cyberspace and urban design, 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, Shusterman, a well-known pragmatist philosopher, provides a rich menu and critical guide for today's pursuit of the art of living.

Surface and depth : dialectics of criticism and culture
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ISBN: 0801438284 0801486831 9780801486838 9780801438288 1501718150 Year: 2002 Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell university press,

Practicing philosophy: pragmatism and the philosophical life
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ISBN: 0415913950 Year: 1997 Publisher: London Routledge

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Body consciousness : a philosophy of mindfulness and somaesthetics
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ISBN: 9780521858908 0521858909 9780521675871 0521675871 9780511802829 051180282X 0511393970 9780511393976 9780511394621 0511394624 110717743X 128137038X 9786611370381 0511393148 0511391838 0511390661 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress, and a variety of personal and social discontents generated by deceptive body images. This book argues that improved body consciousness can relieve these problems and enhance one's knowledge, performance, and pleasure. The body is our basic medium of perception and action, but focused attention to its feelings and movements has long been criticised as a damaging distraction that also ethically corrupts through self-absorption. In Body Consciousness, Richard Shusterman refutes such charges by engaging the most influential twentieth-century somatic philosophers and incorporating insights from both Western and Asian disciplines of body-mind awareness. Rather than rehashing intractable ontological debates on the mind-body relation, Shusterman reorients study of this crucial nexus towards a more fruitful, pragmatic direction that reinforces important but neglected connections between philosophy of mind, ethics, politics, and the pervasive aesthetic dimensions of everyday life.


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Pragmatist aesthetics: living beauty, rethinking art
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ISBN: 0631182365 9780631182368 Year: 1995 Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell,

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