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Author:   Richard Shusterman
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780801486500

ISBN 10:   0801486505
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   07 November 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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The essays are lively and engaging in many ways. Not only is Shusterman informative about topics relating to mass-media arts and self-fashioning, his reflections consistently raise important philosophical issues concerning our postmodernist condition and the cultural and sociological factors fostering it. Furthermore, Shusterman's arguments are fecund and provocative, his styl evigorous, and his critique of current analytical and continental philosophical approches adroit. . . We cannot but admire the skill and verve of Shusterman's attempts to bring philosophy back to its original goals of teaching us how to live more fully and wisely. -Trevor Whittock, British Journal of Aesthetics, Jan. 2002

""Shusterman's new book is a collection of mutually complementary essays which encompass a decade of writing. It reppresents his pragmatist aesthetics critically applied to a range of issues, theories, and methods foregrounded by recent work in both analytic and continental philosophy. Interestingly, the contemporary vitality of some of these issues is in part due to the influence of Shusterman's previous writings...Shusterman's text is enormously sophisticated not only in the range of philosophical and cultural sources which he is able to draw upon, but also in the probling and succinct way in which these are applied""- Mind ""The essays are lively and engaging in many ways. Not only is Shusterman informative about topics relating to mass-media arts and self-fashioning, his reflections consistently raise important philosophical issues concerning our postmodernist condition and the cultural and sociological factors fostering it. Furthermore, Shusterman's arguments are fecund and provocative, his styl evigorous, and his critique of current analytical and continental philosophical approches adroit... We cannot but admire the skill and verve of Shusterman's attempts to bring philosophy back to its original goals of teaching us how to live more fully and wisely.""-Trevor Whittock, British Journal of Aesthetics, Jan. 2002 ""Compelling, smart, original. Performing Live re-situates the body of philosophy as well as the human body in philosophy, aesthetics, country music, hip hop, and urban space. A must read for devotees of philosophy and popular culture critics alike.""-Houston Baker, Duke University, Editor, American Literature ""Evocative and sophisticated, this book should appeal to an audience of diverse theoretical tastes, from contemporary postmodern and continental philosophy to analytic philosophy of art and aesthetics. Performing Live is a vigorous and highly readable collection of essays from an important voice.""-Carolyn Korsmeyer, Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo ""Richard Shusterman's wide-ranging, lyrical overview of American philosophy and culture is both dynamic and inclusive. In giving us a new way to look at American philosophy from the early pragmatists to the hip-hop scene, Shusterman conveys the density of philosophical inquiry with the dextrous prose of a topological acrobat. Imagine a dinner conversation among T.S. Eliot, Ice-T, and John Dewey, an infinite host of well-informed hypertextual linkages surrounding the dialogue, and you might get a glimpse of 'the logic of multicultural difference' that Shusterman portrays in Peforming Live.""-Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Editor-at-Large, Artbyte: The Magazine of Digital Culture

"""Shusterman's new book is a collection of mutually complementary essays which encompass a decade of writing. It reppresents his pragmatist aesthetics critically applied to a range of issues, theories, and methods foregrounded by recent work in both analytic and continental philosophy. Interestingly, the contemporary vitality of some of these issues is in part due to the influence of Shusterman's previous writings...Shusterman's text is enormously sophisticated not only in the range of philosophical and cultural sources which he is able to draw upon, but also in the probling and succinct way in which these are applied""- Mind ""The essays are lively and engaging in many ways. Not only is Shusterman informative about topics relating to mass-media arts and self-fashioning, his reflections consistently raise important philosophical issues concerning our postmodernist condition and the cultural and sociological factors fostering it. Furthermore, Shusterman's arguments are fecund and provocative, his styl evigorous, and his critique of current analytical and continental philosophical approches adroit... We cannot but admire the skill and verve of Shusterman's attempts to bring philosophy back to its original goals of teaching us how to live more fully and wisely.""-Trevor Whittock, British Journal of Aesthetics, Jan. 2002 ""Compelling, smart, original. Performing Live re-situates the body of philosophy as well as the human body in philosophy, aesthetics, country music, hip hop, and urban space. A must read for devotees of philosophy and popular culture critics alike.""-Houston Baker, Duke University, Editor, American Literature ""Evocative and sophisticated, this book should appeal to an audience of diverse theoretical tastes, from contemporary postmodern and continental philosophy to analytic philosophy of art and aesthetics. Performing Live is a vigorous and highly readable collection of essays from an important voice.""-Carolyn Korsmeyer, Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo ""Richard Shusterman's wide-ranging, lyrical overview of American philosophy and culture is both dynamic and inclusive. In giving us a new way to look at American philosophy from the early pragmatists to the hip-hop scene, Shusterman conveys the density of philosophical inquiry with the dextrous prose of a topological acrobat. Imagine a dinner conversation among T.S. Eliot, Ice-T, and John Dewey, an infinite host of well-informed hypertextual linkages surrounding the dialogue, and you might get a glimpse of 'the logic of multicultural difference' that Shusterman portrays in Peforming Live.""-Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Editor-at-Large, Artbyte: The Magazine of Digital Culture"

Richard Shusterman's wide-ranging, lyrical overview of American philosophy and culture is both dynamic and inclusive. In giving us a new way to look at American philosophy from the early pragmatists to the hip-hop scene, Shusterman conveys the density of philosophical inquiry with the dextrous prose of a topological acrobat. Imagine a dinner conversation among T.S. Eliot, Ice-T, and John Dewey, an infinite host of well-informed hypertextual linkages surrounding the dialogue, and you might get a glimpse of 'the logic of multicultural difference' that Shusterman portrays in Peforming Live. Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Editor-at-Large, Artbyte: The Magazine of Digital Culture

Shusterman's new book is a collection of mutually complementary essays which encompass a decade of writing. It reppresents his pragmatist aesthetics critically applied to a range of issues, theories, and methods foregrounded by recent work in both analytic and continental philosophy. Interestingly, the contemporary vitality of some of these issues is in part due to the influence of Shusterman's previous writings...Shusterman's text is enormously sophisticated not only in the range of philosophical and cultural sources which he is able to draw upon, but also in the probling and succinct way in which these are applied - Mind The essays are lively and engaging in many ways. Not only is Shusterman informative about topics relating to mass-media arts and self-fashioning, his reflections consistently raise important philosophical issues concerning our postmodernist condition and the cultural and sociological factors fostering it. Furthermore, Shusterman's arguments are fecund and provocative, his styl evigorous, and his critique of current analytical and continental philosophical approches adroit... We cannot but admire the skill and verve of Shusterman's attempts to bring philosophy back to its original goals of teaching us how to live more fully and wisely. -Trevor Whittock, British Journal of Aesthetics, Jan. 2002 Compelling, smart, original. Performing Live re-situates the body of philosophy as well as the human body in philosophy, aesthetics, country music, hip hop, and urban space. A must read for devotees of philosophy and popular culture critics alike. -Houston Baker, Duke University, Editor, American Literature Evocative and sophisticated, this book should appeal to an audience of diverse theoretical tastes, from contemporary postmodern and continental philosophy to analytic philosophy of art and aesthetics. Performing Live is a vigorous and highly readable collection of essays from an important voice. -Carolyn Korsmeyer, Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo Richard Shusterman's wide-ranging, lyrical overview of American philosophy and culture is both dynamic and inclusive. In giving us a new way to look at American philosophy from the early pragmatists to the hip-hop scene, Shusterman conveys the density of philosophical inquiry with the dextrous prose of a topological acrobat. Imagine a dinner conversation among T.S. Eliot, Ice-T, and John Dewey, an infinite host of well-informed hypertextual linkages surrounding the dialogue, and you might get a glimpse of 'the logic of multicultural difference' that Shusterman portrays in Peforming Live. -Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Editor-at-Large, Artbyte: The Magazine of Digital Culture

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Richard Shusterman is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. His other works include Pragmatist Aesthetics and Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life.

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