Shusterman’s Somaesthetics

Jerold J. Abrams is Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University and editor of The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick. His essays have appeared in The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Practicing Pragmatist Aesthetics, Shusterman’s Pragmatism, and many other volumes.

Acknowledgments


List of Figures


Notes on Contributors


Introduction

  Jerold J. Abrams



part 1

Pragmatism and Somaesthetics

1 Shusterman’s Pragmatist Philosophy

  Stefán Snævarr



2 From Pragmatism to Somaesthetics as Philosophy

  Alexander Kremer



3 Somaesthetics, Somapower, and the Microphysics of Emancipation

  Leszek Koczanowicz



4 Living Beauty, Rethinking Rap Revisiting Shusterman’s Philosophy of Hip Hop

  Max Ryynänen



5 Somaesthetics and Pathic Aesthetics

  Tonino Griffero



6 Eating as an Aesthetic Activity Somaesthetics and Food Studies

  Dorota Koczanowicz



part 2

Performative Philosophy and the Man in Gold

7 Somaesthetics, Photography, and the Man in Gold

  Jerold J. Abrams



8 An Exquisitely Beautiful Longing A Lacanian Reading of The Adventures of the Man in Gold

  Diane Richard-Allerdyce



9 Shusterman as Philosopher and the Man in Gold

  Yvonne Bezrucka



10 The Golden Turn in Shusterman’s Somaesthetics The Magical Figure of the Man in Gold

  Else Marie Bukdahl



11 On Shusterman’s Somaesthetic Practice The Case of the Man in Gold

  Yang Lu



12 Somaesthetics and Cinema The Man in Gold in the Film Walk the Golden Night

  Jerold J. Abrams



part 3

Shusterman in His Own Words

13 Somaesthetics, Pragmatism, and the Man in Gold Remarks on the Preceding Chapters

  Richard Shusterman



14 On the Path of Somaesthetics An Interview with Richard Shusterman

  Yanping Gao



Index