Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics / edited by Richard Shusterman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shusterman, Richard, editor.

Series:

Studies in Somaesthetics ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics--Physiological aspects.

Aesthetics.

Experience.

Human body (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XII, 220 p.) ill

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro; Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics; Part 1: Embodiment in Philosophy and Aesthetic Experience; 1 Nietzsche on Embodiment: A Proto-somaesthetics?; 2 Experience and Aesthetics; 3 Art as Experience: Gadamer and Pragmatist Aesthetics; Part 2: Somaesthetic Approaches to the Fine Arts; 4 Olafur Eliasson, Art as Embodied and Interdisciplinary Experience: In Dialogue with Else Marie Bukdahl; 5 Winckelmann's Haptic Gaze: A Somaesthetic Interpretation 6 Rethinking Aesthetics through Architecture?7 "The Co-Presence of Something Regular": Wordsworth's Aesthetics of Prosody; 8 Singing, Listening, Proprioceiving: Some Reflections on Vocal Somaesthetics; Part 3: Somaesthetics in the Photographic Arts and the Art of Living; 9 Spectral Absence and Bodily Presence: Performative Writings on Photography; 10 Cosmetic Practices: The Intersection with Aesthetics and Medicine; 11 Santayana on Embodiment, the Art of Living, and Sexual Aesthetics; 12 Thinking through the Body of Maya: Somaesthetic Frames from Mira Nair's Kamasutra; Name Index

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