Overview

This collection of essays explores the crucial connections between aesthetic experience and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, while further advancing inquiry in both. After the editor’s introduction and three articles examining philosophical accounts of embodiment and aesthetic experience in existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and pragmatism, the book’s nine remaining articles apply somaesthetic theory to the fine arts (including detailed studies of the body’s role in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, music, photography, and cinema) but also to diverse arts of living, considering such topics as cosmetics and sexual practice. These interdisciplinary, multicultural essays are written by a distinctively international group of experts, ranging from Asia (China and India) to Europe (Denmark, Finland, Hungary, and Italy) and the United States.

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Author:   Richard Shusterman
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.369kg
ISBN:  

9789004347694

ISBN 10:   9004347690
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   22 February 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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

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The reviewed book is a remarkable example of the significance of somaesthetics for contemporary thought. ... I am sure that [this] book is a significant argument for the fruitfulness of somaesthetics. - Leszek Koczanowicz, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Pragmatism Today, vol. 9, issue 2, 2018.

Author Information

Richard Shusterman is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Director of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture at Florida Atlantic University. His major books include Pragmatist Aesthetics, Practicing Philosophy, Performing Live, Body Consciousness, and Thinking through the Body.

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