Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman's Somaesthetics
Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman's Somaesthetics

Author: Valentina Antoniol

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-07-25

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1350384828

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Bringing together Michel Foucault's aesthetics of existence and Richard Shusterman's somaesthetics, this volume provides a critical comparison of two of the most influential philosophical theories of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Introduced by a comprehensive overview of both concepts by editors Stefano Marino and Valentina Antoniol, the ensuing chapters interrogate the affinities and variances between Foucault's and Shusterman's philosophies. Building on the interdisciplinary character of somaesthetics and aesthetics of existence, international scholars explore these ideas through a wide range of topics ranging from care of the self and of the social self to the ethical and political challenges posed by themes as white ignorance, construction of resistances, and production of subjectivities. Given the central role played by the body in both concepts, this volume also affords particular attention to the philosophy of sexuality. Demonstrating the value of reading these two thinkers together through the adoption of radical interpretive perspectives, Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman's Somaesthetics highlights the potentialities and the relevance of Foucault's and Shusterman's theories, even with respect to our actualité.

Ars Erotica
Ars Erotica

Author: Richard Shusterman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-03-25

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1107004764

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Drawing on theories of lovemaking from ancient Asian and Western cultures, this book provides a new aesthetics of erotic love.

Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics
Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics

Author: Richard Shusterman

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-02-12

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9004361928

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This collection of essays explores the crucial connections between aesthetic experience and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, while further advancing inquiry in both. After the editor’s introduction and three articles examining philosophical accounts of embodiment and aesthetic experience in existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and pragmatism, the book’s nine remaining articles apply somaesthetic theory to the fine arts (including detailed studies of the body’s role in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, music, photography, and cinema) but also to diverse arts of living, considering such topics as cosmetics and sexual practice. These interdisciplinary, multicultural essays are written by a distinctively international group of experts, ranging from Asia (China and India) to Europe (Denmark, Finland, Hungary, and Italy) and the United States.

Body Consciousness
Body Consciousness

Author: Richard Shusterman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-01-07

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1139467778

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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.

Foucault's Philosophy of Art
Foucault's Philosophy of Art

Author: Joseph J. Tanke

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2009-08-30

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 184706485X

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Offers the first complete examination of Foucault's reflections on visual art, leading to new readings of his major texts.

Thinking Through the Body
Thinking Through the Body

Author: Richard Shusterman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-09-17

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1107019060

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

Practicing Philosophy
Practicing Philosophy

Author: Richard Shusterman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-04

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1134717229

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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.

Kant’s ›Critique of Aesthetic Judgment‹ in the 20th Century
Kant’s ›Critique of Aesthetic Judgment‹ in the 20th Century

Author: Stefano Marino

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-11-09

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 3110596490

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Kant’s Critique of Judgment represents one of the most important texts in modern philosophy. However, while its importance for 19th-century philosophy has been widely acknowledged, scholars have often overlooked its far-reaching influence on 20th-century thought. This book aims to account for the various interpretations of Kant’s notion of aesthetic judgment formulated in the last century. The book approaches the subject matter from both a historical and a theoretical point of view and in relation to different cultural contexts, also exploring in an unprecedented way its influence on some very up-to-date philosophical developments and trends. It represents the first choral and comprehensive study on this missing piece in the history of modern and contemporary philosophy, capable of cutting in a unique way across different traditions, movements and geographical areas. All main themes of Kant’s aesthetics are investigated in this book, while at the same time showing how they have been interpreted in very different ways in the 20th century. With contributions by Alessandro Bertinetto, Patrice Canivez, Dario Cecchi, Diarmuid Costello, Nicola Emery, Serena Feloj, Günter Figal, Tom Huhn, Hans-Peter Krüger, Thomas W. Leddy, Stefano Marino, Claudio Paolucci, Anne Sauvagnargues, Dennis J. Schmidt, Arno Schubbach, Scott R. Stroud, Thomas Teufel, and Pietro Terzi.

Pragmatist Aesthetics
Pragmatist Aesthetics

Author: Richard Shusterman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2000-02-22

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1461641179

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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.

Aesthetic and Artistic Autonomy
Aesthetic and Artistic Autonomy

Author: Owen Hulatt

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1441132309

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Whether art can be wholly autonomous has been repeatedly challenged in the modern history of aesthetics. In this collection of specially-commissioned chapters, a team of experts discuss the extent to which art can be explained purely in terms of aesthetic categories. Covering examples from Philosophy, Music and Art History and drawing on continental and analytic sources, this volume clarifies the relationship between artworks and extra-aesthetic considerations, including historic, cultural or economic factors. It presents a comprehensive overview of the question of aesthetic autonomy, exploring its relevance to both philosophy and the comprehension of specific artworks themselves. By closely examining how the creation of artworks, and our judgements of these artworks, relate to society and history, Aesthetic and Artistic Autonomy provides an insightful and sustained discussion of a major question in aesthetic philosophy.