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Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics

✍ Scribed by Richard Shusterman (editor)

Publisher
Brill Academic
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Leaves
233
Series
Studies in Somaesthetics 1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This essay collection explores the crucial connections between aesthetic experience and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. After examining philosophical accounts of embodiment and aesthetic experience, the essays apply somaesthetic theory to the diverse fine arts and the art of living.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics • Richard Shusterman
Part 1: Embodiment in Philosophy and Aesthetic Experience
1 Nietzsche on Embodiment: A Proto-somaesthetics? • Catherine F. Botha
2 Experience and Aesthetics • Béla Bacsó
3 Art as Experience: Gadamer and Pragmatist Aesthetics • Alexander Kremer
Part 2: Somaesthetic Approaches to the Fine Arts
4 Olafur Eliasson, Art as Embodied and Interdisciplinary Experience: In Dialogue with Else Marie Bukdahl • Else Marie Bukdahl
5 Winckelmann’s Haptic Gaze: A Somaesthetic Interpretation • Yanping Gao
6 Rethinking Aesthetics through Architecture? • Bálint Veres
7 “The Co-Presence of Something Regular”: Wordsworth’s Aesthetics of Prosody • John Golden
8 Singing, Listening, Proprioceiving: Some Reflections on Vocal Somaesthetics • Anne Tarvainen
Part 3: Somaesthetics in the Photographic Arts and the Art of Living
9 Spectral Absence and Bodily Presence: Performative Writings on Photography • Éva Antal
10 Cosmetic Practices: The Intersection with Aesthetics and Medicine • Elisabetta Di Stefano
11 Santayana on Embodiment, the Art of Living, and Sexual Aesthetics • Nóra Horváth
12 Thinking through the Body of Maya: Somaesthetic Frames from Mira Nair’s Kamasutra • Vinod Balakrishnan and Swathi Elizabeth Kurian
Name Index
Subject Index

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