Richard Shusterman
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"Related to this model rooted in poetry, the place and role of architecture within the modern system of the arts were never unquestioned. ... Kristeller notes that our modern system of the arts is constantly threatened with collapse due to its essentialism that cannot resist the actual historical changes of cultural life." --Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics, Richard Shusterman, 2018 |
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Richard Shusterman is an American pragmatist philosopher. Known for his contributions to philosophical aesthetics and the emerging field of somaesthetics, currently he is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University.
In Practicing Philosophy, Shusterman introduces his concept of ‘somaesthetics’, which he elaborates in greater detail in Performing Live. Somaesthetics is the focus of Shusterman’s two subsequent books, Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics (2008) and Thinking through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics (2012). The first of these books, translated into seven languages, helped establish somaesthetics as an international, interdisciplinary project involving scholars from fields beyond philosophy, while the second book consolidated this movement toward the interdisciplinary approach by applying somaesthetics to various arts, and cultural practices.
Selected list of publications
- Shusterman, Richard. 1999. ‘Somaesthetics: A Disciplinary Proposal.’ Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Vol. 57, pp. 299-313.
- Shusterman, Richard. 2005. ‘Somaesthetics and Burke’s Sublime’. British Journal of Aesthetics. Vol. 45, pp. 323-341.
- Shusterman, Richard. 2007. ‘Asian Ars Erotica and the Question of Sexual Aesthetics’. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Vol. 65, pp. 55-68.
