Shusterman's somaesthetics : : from hip hop philosophy to politics and performance art / / edited by Jerold J. Abrams.

• Superior document: Studies in Somaesthetics ; 4
• TeilnehmendeR: Abrams, Jerold J., 1971-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Somaesthetics ; 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 pages)

This edited collection provides an in-depth and wide-ranging exploration of pragmatist philosopher Richard Shusterman's distinctive project of "somaesthetics," devoted not only to better understanding bodily experience but also to greater mastery of somatic perception, performance, and presentation. Against contemporary trends that focus narrowly on conceptual and computational thinking, Shusterman returns philosophy to what is most fundamental-the sentient, expressive, human body with its creations of living beauty. Twelve scholars here provide penetrating critical analyses of Shusterman on ontology, perception, language, literature, culture, politics, aesthetics, cuisine, music, and the visual arts, including films of his work in performance art.

Table of Contents

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Pragmatism and Somaesthetics -- Chapter 1 Shusterman's Pragmatist Philosophy -- 1 The Soma and Somatism -- 2 Körper and Leib -- 3 The Body-Mind -- 4 The Aesthetic Self -- 5 Critiquing and Defending Shusterman -- 6 A New Fusion -- Chapter 2 From Pragmatism to Somaesthetics as Philosophy -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Chapter 3 Somaesthetics, Somapower, and the Microphysics of Emancipation -- Chapter 4 Living Beauty, Rethinking Rap: Revisiting Shusterman's Philosophy of Hip Hop -- 1 From the Bronx to Finland -- 2 Rap's Struggle for Scholarly Recognition -- 3 Shusterman on Rap -- 4 Talkin' All That Rap -- 5 Rap and Violence -- 6 Recycling the Past, Reinventing the Future -- Chapter 5 Somaesthetics and Pathic Aesthetics -- 1 Opening the Dialogue -- 2 Pathic Aesthetics -- 3 Shusterman on Pragmatism and Popular Art -- 4 The Limits of Somaesthetics -- 5 An Ongoing Dialogue -- Chapter 6 Eating as an Aesthetic Activity: Somaesthetics and Food Studies -- 1 Food and Philosophy -- 2 Der Mensch ist was er isst -- 3 Food, Art, and Aesthetics -- 4 The Somaesthetic Art of Eating -- 5 The Culture of Sensory Experience -- Part 2 Performative Philosophy and the Man in Gold -- Chapter 7 Somaesthetics, Photography, and the Man in Gold -- 1 The Adventures of the Man in Gold -- 2 Transfigurations -- 2.1 Danto and Shusterman -- 2.2 Emerson and Shusterman -- 3 The Man in Gold and the Golden Man -- Chapter 8 An Exquisitely Beautiful Longing: A Lacanian Reading of The Adventures of the Man in Gold -- 1 A Word about the Theoretical Theater in Which I Write -- 2 Boundary-Crossing and the Move against Dualism -- 3 Fiction, the Mirror Stage, and the "Third Term" -- 4 The Mirror-Stage and the Man in Gold.

5 The Adventures of the Man in Gold as Memoir -- 6 A Joyous Celebration of the Fictional Nature of the Self -- Chapter 9 Shusterman as Philosopher and the Man in Gold -- 1 The Man in Gold -- 2 Somaesthetics as Metalanguage -- 3 Spectators and the Man in Gold -- 4 Performance Arts and Performative Arts -- 5 Spectators/Readers -- Chapter 10 The Golden Turn in Shusterman's Somaesthetics: The Magical Figure of the Man in Gold -- 1 Art and the Body -- 2 A New Concept of Visual Art -- 3 Somaesthetics and Somaflux Photography -- 4 Aesthetic Transactions Exhibition, Paris 2012 -- 5 Photography and Performance -- 6 The Royaumont Abbey: A Mysterious Birth -- 7 The Dunes and the Sea of Northern Jutland -- 8 The Artists of Pink Rock Castle, by Marit Benthe Norheim -- 9 The Birth of a New Artwork and New Literary Work -- Chapter 11 On Shusterman's Somaesthetic Practice: The Case of the Man in Gold -- 1 Who Is the Man in Gold? -- 2 The Abbey in France -- 3 Private Redemption -- 4 Shusterman and Merleau-Ponty -- 5 Body Consciousness -- 6 Shusterman and the Man in Gold -- 7 Daoism and the Man in Gold -- Chapter 12 Somaesthetics and Cinema: The Man in Gold in the Film Walk the Golden Night -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Camera Obscura and the Midwife Analogy -- 3 Genius and the Photographical Situation -- 4 Walk the Golden Night and Citizen Kane -- 5 Emerson, Mood, and the Camera -- 6 Langer, Danto, and Walk the Golden Night -- 7 The Film's Ending -- Part 3 Shusterman in His Own Words -- Chapter 13 Somaesthetics, Pragmatism, and the Man in Gold: Remarks on the Preceding Chapters -- 1 -- 2 -- Chapter 14 On the Path of Somaesthetics: An Interview with Richard Shusterman -- Abbreviated Bibliography and Filmography of Richard Shusterman -- Books -- Films -- Books about Shusterman -- Name Index -- Subject Index.