Thinking through the body : essays in somaesthetics / Richard Shusterman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shusterman, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Philosophy.

Humanities.

Human body (Philosophy).

Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher).

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a richly rewarding vision of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. Composed of fourteen wide-ranging but finely integrated essays by Richard Shusterman, the originator of the field, Thinking through the Body explains the philosophical foundations of somaesthetics and applies its insights to central issues in ethics, education, cultural politics, consciousness studies, sexuality and the arts. Integrating Western philosophy, cognitive science and somatic methodologies with classical Asian theories of body, mind and action, these essays probe the nature of somatic existence and the role of body consciousness in knowledge, memory and behavior. Deploying somaesthetic perspectives to analyze key aesthetic concepts (such as style and the sublime), he offers detailed studies of embodiment in drama, dance, architecture and photography. The volume also includes somaesthetic exercises for the classroom and explores the ars erotica as an art of living.

Contents:

Thinking through the body: educating for the humanities

The body as background

Self-knowledge and its discontents: from Socrates to somaesthetics

Muscle memory and the somaesthetic pathologies of everyday life

Somaesthetics in the philosophy classroom: a practical approach

Somaesthetics and the limits of aesthetics

Somaesthetics and Burke's sublime

Pragmatism and cultural politics: from textualism to somaesthetics

Body consciousness and performance: somaesthetics east and west

Somaesthetics and architecture: a critical option

Photography as performative process

Asian ars erotica and the question of sexual aesthetics

Somaesthetic awakening and the art of living: everyday aesthetics American transcendentalism and Japanese Zen practice

Somatic style.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Painettu:

ISBN:

1-139-54008-4

1-316-08976-2

1-139-52609-X

1-139-53195-6

1-139-52848-3

1-139-53076-3

1-139-09403-3

1-283-63747-2

1-139-52729-0

OCLC:

815384733