Richard Shusterman: 4 books

Book cover of Pragmatist Aesthetics

Pragmatist Aesthetics

Living Beauty, Rethinking Art

by Richard Shusterman, Author of Surface and Depth: Dialectics of Criticism and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2000

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...
Book cover of Thinking through the Body

Thinking through the Body

Essays in Somaesthetics

by Richard Shusterman
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012

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...
Book cover of Practicing Philosophy

Practicing Philosophy

Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life

by Richard Shusterman
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016

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.
Book cover of The Philosophical I

The Philosophical I

Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy

by Nicholas Rescher, Linda Martín Alcoff, Lorraine Code
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 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. Candid and philosophically insightful, these personal narratives critically call into question the belief that philosophy should...
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