Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art

✍ Scribed by Richard Shusterman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 368
Edition: 2
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction to the Second Edition
Preface
PART I Pragmatism and Traditional Theory
1 Placing Pragmatism
2 Art and Theory between Experience and Practice
3 Organic Unity: Analysis and Deconstruction
4 Pragmatism and Interpretation
5 Beneath Interpretation
PART II Rethinking Art
6 Aesthetic Ideology, Aesthetic Education, and Art's value in Critique
7 Form and Funk: The Aesthetic Challenge of Popular Art
8 The Fine Art of Rap
9 Postmodern Ethics and the Art of Living
10 Somaesthetics: A Disciplinary Proposal
Notes
Index

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