Beauty, responsibility, and power : : ethical and political consequences of pragmatist aesthetics / / edited by Leszek Koczanowicz and Katarzyna Liszka ; contributors, Rosa M. Calcaterra [and eleven others].

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book Series. Central-European value studies ; Volume 277
• TeilnehmendeR: Koczanowicz, Leszek,; Liszka, Katarzyna,; Calcaterra, Rosa Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series. Central-European value studies ; Volume 277.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; BEAUTY AND ACTION /; SOMAESTHETICS AND POLITICS: INCORPORATING PRAGMATIST AESTHETICS FOR SOCIAL ACTION /; EMBODIED COMMUNITIES /; OSTENTATION AND AGORAPHOBIA IN THE CITY /; “ANYTHING GOES” VS. “WHO TOUCHES THIS BOOK TOUCHES A MAN”: WILLIAM JAMES AND PAUL FEYERABEND ON METAPHYSICAL, ETHICAL, AND AESTHETIC “ABUNDANCE” /; EXPERIENCE AND JUDGEMENT: POLITICAL AND AESTHETIC /; AESTHETICS AS DUTY OR AESTHETICS AS FAITH: NOTES ON RICHARD SHUSTERMAN’S PRAGMATIST AESTHETICS WITH REFERENCE TO ADORNO AND CASTORIADIS /; THE LINGUISTIC WORLD: RORTY’S AESTHETIC MELIORISM /; THE CONCEPT OF MAN IN THE SHADOW OF THE SHOAH: GERAS, RORTY AND SHUSTERMAN IN DIALOGUE /; SOMAESTHETIC ENCOUNTER WITH ONESELF AND THE OTHER /; MAKING THE PRAGMATIST ART OF LIVING EXPLICIT /; THE AESTHETIC COSMOPOLITAN FROM A NEO-PRAGMATIST PERSPECTIVE: THEMES AND CHALLENGES IN SHUSTERMAN /; PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN LIFE POLITICS OF TODAY /; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS --; INDEX --; VALUE INQUIRY BOOK SERIES.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9401211620
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Leszek Koczanowicz and Katarzyna Liszka ; contributors, Rosa M. Calcaterra [and eleven others].

This book addresses the interrelations between aesthetics, ethics, and politics in the framework of pragmatist aesthetics, offering a comprehensive panorama of the ways and fields in which pragmatist aesthetics ties in with vital social and ethical problems of modernity. Most of the contributors refer to the model propounded by Richard Shusterman. Following in Dewey’s footsteps, Shusterman has elaborated and expanded his concept, adding new dimensions to it. The most important supplement is the idea of aesthetic experience being constituted by our bodiliness. In somaesthetics , pragmatism has acquired a new dimension – a fully developed, comprehensive aesthetic theory. Pragmatist aesthetics with its essential notion of the body engages in critical dialogue with many key concepts of modernity which locate the body in social and cultural frameworks. The articles collected in this volume illustrate the complex range of pragmatist aesthetics and its impact on the understanding of crucial issues in social and moral philosophy.