The Critical Shusterman
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Collecting sixteen key texts on a broad range of key philosophical topics enables readers to perceive the scope of Shusterman's philosophy and appreciate its systematic aspects.
Richard Shusterman is one of today's foremost philosophers. His influential and widely translated work is distinctive for its originality and its integration of multiple philosophical perspectives (analytic philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory, and East Asian thought) to create a new transcultural pragmatist vision. Although most famous for his groundbreaking writings in aesthetics, somatic philosophy, and philosophy as an art of living, these texts are integrally connected with Shusterman's vital views on ontology, epistemology, and philosophy of mind, ethics, and politics. Collecting sixteen key texts on this broad range of topics, The Critical Shusterman enables readers to perceive the scope of Shusterman's philosophy and appreciate its systematic aspects. Editor Crispin Sartwell's superb introduction highlights those aspects in assessing Shusterman's thought in the context of contemporary philosophy while suggesting ways that Shusterman's project could be developed in the future.
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Richard Shusterman is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. Now retired, Crispin Sartwell has taught philosophy at Vanderbilt University, the University of Alabama, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and Dickinson College.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Dance of Ideas: Richard Shusterman's Embodied Philosophy
- I. Situating Shusterman in Intellectual History
- II. From Pragmatist Aesthetics to Somaesthetics
- III. A Fully-Embodied Philosophy
- Somatic Metaphysics
- Somatic Epistemology
- Somatic Ethics
- Somatic Political Philosophy
- IV. Somaphilosophy Now
- I. Cognition, Interpretation, and Ontology
- 1. Beneath Interpretation
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- 2. Experience: Foundation or Reconstruction?
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- 3. Organic Unity: Analysis and Deconstruction
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- 4. Affective Cognition: From Pragmatism to Somaesthetics
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- II. Ethics and Politics
- 5. Postmodern Ethics and the Art of Living
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- 6. Self-Knowledge and Its Discontents
- I. Introduction
- II. Historical Interpretations
- III. Modern Critiques
- IV. Contemporary Psychology and Varieties of Self-Reflection
- V. Somatic Self-Consciousness
- 7. Dialectics of Multiculturalism: Ethics and Politics
- I
- II
- III
- 8. The Ethics of Democracy
- I
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- IV
- V
- III. Aesthetics
- 9. The End of Aesthetic Experience
- I
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- 10. Art as Dramatization
- I
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- IV
- 11. Entertainment: A Question for Aesthetics
- I. Introductory Remarks
- II. Terminological Complexities
- III. Genealogical Reflections
- IV. Pleasure and Life
- 12. Art and Religion
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- IV. Somaesthetics
- 13. Soma and Media
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- 14. Thinking through the Body, Educating for the Humanities
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- 15. Muscle Memory and the Somaesthetic Pathologies of Everyday Life
- I. Muscle Memory as Implicit Memory
- II. Six Forms of Muscle Memory
- III. Somaesthetic Pathologies of Muscle Memory and Their Treatment
- 16. Somaesthetics and Politics
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- Notes
- Books by Richard Shusterman
- Books about Richard Shusterman
- Films about Richard Shusterman
- Index
