Shusterman’s Pragmatism: Between Literature and Somaesthetics (Value Inquiry Book Series, 244)

✍ Scribed by Dorota Koczanowicz (editor), Wojiech Malecki (editor)

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 242
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book is the first essay collection on Richard Shusterman, the foremost representative of contemporary pragmatist aesthetics, a philosopher whose books have been translated into more than fifteen languages. The 12 essays, which cover the wide-ranging scope of Shusterman’s pragmatist thought, divide into three sections: Literary Theory and Philosophy of Art; Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics; and Somaesthetics. Written by an international group of authors from different philosophical perspectives, the book’s essays not only provide a good introduction to Shusterman’s innovative pragmatist theories, but show their useful applications to important and controversial topics in philosophy, politics, religious and gender studies, the arts, and somaesthetics. The book also includes two new texts by Shusterman: an introductory essay in which he explains the trajectory of his intellectual development and a detailed response to the other contributors, which closes the book.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
A Pragmatist Path through the Play of Limits: from Literature to Somaesthetics
Part One: LITERARY THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF ART
ONE The Idea of Emotion in T. S. Eliot and in Richard Shusterman
TWO Neo-pragmatist Models of Self-Development and the Poetic Subjectivity in John Ashbery’s Poetry
THREE Challenging the Taboo of the Autobiographical
FOUR “You Must Change Your Life”: Pragmatism and the Therapeutic Function of Art
Part Two: EPISTEMOLOGY, METAPHYSICS, ETHICS, AND POLITICS
FIVE Philosophy and Life: Pragmatism, Wittgenstein, and Metaphysics
SIX Faith and the Limits of Fallibilism
SEVEN Erotic Pragmatism: Shusterman’s Deweyan Advances
EIGHT Shusterman and the Paradoxes of Superhuman Self-Styling
Part Three: SOMAESTHETICS
NINE “Body Trouble”? Somaesthetics and Feminism
TEN Aesthetics and Corporal Values
ELEVEN Sampling (No)Body
TWELVE Somaesthetics and Democracy: Dewey and Contemporary Body Art
Continuing Connections: Comments on the Preceding Essays
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX

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