Richard Shusterman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 177932 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Shusterman |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Shusterman |
| FIRMA | SHUSTERMAN R |
| AFILIACIONES | Florida Atlantic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0467-9781 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 101 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 114 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Body Art and Somaesthetics
This dialogue between performance artist Stelarc and philosopher Richard Shusterman, moderated by Dorota Koczanowicz at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, explores the evolving concept of the soma as a culturally constructed, technologically augmented entity. Rejecting Cartesian dualism, both speakers emphasize embodied subjectivity and the inseparability of mind and body. The discussion addresses artistic practice as a site of epistemic inquiry, h…
Confessions of The Critical Shusterman
Preview: / Richard Shusterman interviewed by Crispin Sartwell / In the context of contemporary philosophy, Richard Shusterman occupies a singular position. As one of the most influential figures revitalizing and extending the pragmatist tradition into new domains of aesthetic, somatic, and intercultural inquiry, his work has not only reinvigorated longstanding concerns with embodiment, perception, and the art of living, but also expanded the disc…
Experience and Interpretation
Experience and interpretation are two key topics of twentieth-century aesthetics that remain central today. Although aesthetic experience forms the core of John Dewey's Art as Experience, the book neglects the issue of interpretation. My essay explores this surprising lacuna in Dewey's aesthetic masterpiece. Dewey's pluralism, fallibilism, and critique of the quest for certainty should make the concept of interpretation very appealing, because fa…
Soma-esthétique, art et libération
Cet article situe la soma-esthétique dans le prolongement de mon travail sur l’esthétique pragmatiste, puis explore les dimensions politiques de la soma-esthétique et certaines de ses applications pratiques. Réfutant le point de vue selon lequel l’intérêt pour le corps est une question privée plutôt que politique, le propos se concentre principalement sur la question de la politique de la libération et sur le rôle que l’esthétique peut y jouer. J…
La photographie comme processus performatif
Dans cet article initialement publié en 2012, R. Shusterman soutient que la photographie ne se réduit pas au cliché photographique, qui n’est que son produit bidimensionnel final, développé, imprimé ou affiché numériquement. En se concentrant sur l’exemple du portrait photographique, il s’intéresse à ce qu’il se passe en amont du cliché, afin de mettre en lumière la dimension performative d’un art le plus souvent conçu comme strictement visuel. E…
Dewey's Art as Experience in Global Perspective
This essay introduces a special issue devoted to studying the global impact and rich, ongoing legacy of John Dewey's aesthetic masterpiece Art as Experience, ninety years after its initial publication in 1934. After noting the role that the Journal of Aesthetic Education played in assessing the book's influence, this introductory essay surveys the international reception of the book by exploring its history of translation and explaining the diffi…
Art, Eros, and Liberation
After showing how pragmatist aesthetics and Marcuse's critical theory affirm aesthetic education as key to transforming society toward greater freedom, equality, pleasure, and fulfillment, I compare the ways these two approaches differently perceive the scope and role of aesthetics in such transformation. Whereas Marcuse identifies the aesthetic dimension with the realm of high art, pragmatism understands this dimension far more broadly to includ…
Foucault and Somaesthetics
This essay examines Foucault’s legacy in terms of its contribution to the field of somaesthetics. It demonstrates how Foucault’s work on embodiment, care of the self, pleasure, sexuality, and aesthetics of existence were inspirational to the founding of somaesthetics and can serve as exemplars of somaesthetic philosophy. However, the essay also explores the ways that current somaesthetic research departs from Foucault’s theories by critiquing the…
Ennobling Love and Erotic Elevation
Preview: In various guises and cultures, the theme of elevating, ennobling love is a recurrent topos in the premodern erotic theory my book traces. Freed from Plato’s problematic dualistic denigration of the body as prison of the soul and from the modern aesthetic prejudice of disinterestedness, Ars Erotica recaptures the valuable core of ennobling desire by showing how a new somaesthetic approach to sex could channel the power of eros to cultiva…
Pragmatist Philosophy for Our Times
Philosophy and the Art of Writing
Philosophy and literature enjoy a close, complex relationship. Elucidating the connections between these two fields, this book examines the ways philosophy deploys literary means to advance its practice, particularly as a way of life that extends beyond literary forms and words into physical deeds, nonlinguistic expression, and subjective moods and feelings. Exploring thinkers from Socrates and Confucius to Foucault and Simone de Beauvoir, Richar…
Pragmatist Aesthetics
Roberta Dreon - Richard Shusterman is one of the leading figures in the current field of pragmatist aesthetics and he has undoubtedly played a pivotal role in recovering a pragmatist approach to aesthetics. His book Pragmatist Aesthetics was simultaneously published in France under the title L’Art à l’état vif. La pensée pragmatiste et l’esthétique populaire in 1992, paving the way for a long awaited French translation of Dewey’s Art as Experienc…
Sex, Emancipation, and Aesthetics
L’expérience esthétique
Cet article éclaire par leur analyse différentes conceptions de l’expérience esthétique qui ont joué un rôle significatif dans la philosophie de l’art et de l’esthétique. Cette analyse approfondit mon étude antérieure des caractéristiques hédoniques, évaluatives, phénoménologiques, sémantiques et définitionnelles du modèle traditionnellement dominant de l’expérience esthétique et s’élargit à des critères pertinents supplémentaires pour évaluer le…
Introduction
L'esthétique chez Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty entretient une relation ambiguë avec l'esthétique. D'une part il accorde une place centrale à la dimension esthétique dans l'activité philosophique elle-même, puisque celle-ci ne doit pas faire appel à l'argumentation et à la raison, mais à l'imagination et à la création de nouveaux vocabulaires ; de l'autre, il rejette au nom de l'anti-essentialisme l'idée de l'esthétique comme domaine de la culture distinct et unifié. L'article ch…
A Somaestética e a filosofia pragmatista de Richard Shusterman
Richard Shusterman é professor de Filosofia na Florida Atlantic University. Sua filosofia é fortemente influenciada pela obra de William James e John Dewey e o estudo desses autores, somados à sua experiência com Educação Somática e outras práticas corporais, fizeram com que o filósofo desenvolvesse uma nova proposta: a Somaestética. A Somaestética é um campo interdisciplinar dedicado ao estudo das possibilidades e capacidades de percepção e apre…
Practicing Philosophy
Applying contemporary pragmatism to the crucial question of how philosophy can help us live better, Shusterman develops his distinctive aesthetic model of philosophical living that includes politics, somatics, and ethnicity, while critically engaging the rival views of Dewey, Wittgenstein, and Foucault, as well as Rorty, Putnam, Goodman, Habermas, and Cavell.
Danto et l'esthétique pragmatiste
Il semble évident que la philosophie de l'art développée par Danto s'oppose en tout point à l'esthétique pragmatiste. Non pas que Danto ait été un commentateur critique de Peirce ou de Dewey, auxquels il se réfère finalement fort peu. Mais le renouveau pragmatiste de l'esthétique, quand il remet au premier plan la notion d'expérience esthétique ou quand il cherche à restaurer la continuité entre l'art et la vie, s'est quant à lui en bonne partie …
Pierre Bourdieu and Pragmatist Aesthetics
After tracing Bourdieu's ambiguous role in pragmatism's recent reception in France and then outlining the many themes Bourdieu shares with pragmatism, this paper highlights the differences between pragmatist aesthetics and Bourdieu's aesthetic theory. Critically responding to Bourdieu's arguments against pragmatist aesthetics for its interest in activist theory and its defense of popular art and aesthetic experience, the paper examines the limits…
Affective Cognition
This article explores classical pragmatism''s resources for contemporary cognitive science by focusing on the arguments that Peirce, James, and Dewey bring to show the diverse affective and aesthetic factors that crucially shape cognition. Making the case that affect further provides the motor for action (including the action involved in perception), we see that the 4E pragmatist picture of cognition as embodied, enactive, embedded, and extended …
Thinking through the Body
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 Weste…
Beyond Price
Le corps et les arts
This essay shall consider how somaesthetics is related to the field of fine arts, though the scope of somaesthetics is indeed wider, extending into all practices of life in which we can enhance our perception and performance through improved somatic self-use and self-knowledge. It begins by clarifying the idea of somaesthetics and how it is needed to counterbalance the strong tendencies in modern aesthetics, beginning with its founder Alexander B…
Back to the Future
This paper originated as the keynote address at the conference "Aesthetics Today" organized by the Finnish Society of Aesthetics to mark its 40th anniversary and was delivered at the University of Helsinki on March 1, 2012. Written for that particular occasion the sense of an oral presentation has been maintained. Shusterman's point of departure is the thesis that contemporary aesthetics can be characterized by a number of leading themes that mar…
Performing Live
Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by visions of its end and lamentations of decline. Defining the very notions of art and the aesthetic as special products of Western modernity, they suggest that postmodern challenges to traditional high culture pose a devastating danger to art's future. Richard Shusterman's new book cuts through the seductive confusions of these views by tracing the earthy roots of aesthetic experience and showi…
Pragmatism and Liberalism between Dewey and Rorty
Comparaison entre les idees liberales de Rorty et de Dewey dans le but d'expliciter les raisons de l'evolution du liberalisme radical de Dewey vers le conservatisme de Rorty et de trouver une forme de liberalisme pragmatique plus pertinente. En explorant les fondements philosophiques des differences entre Rorty et Dewey, l'A. aborde des questions telles que la liberte, la contingence, la justification philosophique, la valeur de l'unite esthetiqu…
The Fine Art of Rap
Postmodernist Aestheticism
Somaesthetics and the Body/Media Issue
Somaesthetics and Burke's Sublime
Burke is an important exception to Nietzsche's claim that philosophical aesthetics ignores physiology and the role of practical interest. Grounded on the powerful interest of survival, Burke's theory of the sublime also offers a physiological explanation of our feelings of sublimity that explicitly defines certain conditions of our nerves as the ‘efficient cause’ of such feelings. While his general account of sublimity is widely appreciated, its …
The Interpretive Turn
This wide-ranging and provocative book responds to a debate that is radically changing the relationships between the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Many now agree that foundationalism in philosophy and positivism in science have been overturned, and that philosophy, having found that its "linguistic turn" led to a dead end, must now take an "interpretive turn." In philosophy, the sciences, and such diverse fields as anthropolo…
Putnam and Cavell on the Ethics of Democracy
L'A. souligne la necessite d'une revision et d'une amplification des theories politiques d'H. Putnam et S. Cavell, fondees sur la defense de la democratie et la revendication de l'auto-perfection de l'individu, en vue du projet d'un meliorisme pragmatique reconstructif inspire par Dewey. Se referant au perfectionnisme d'Emerson et Thoreau, l'A. montre que l'ethique de la democratie et de la realisation de soi defendue par Putnam et Cavell releve …
The Pragmatist Aesthetics of William James
Journal Article The Pragmatist Aesthetics of William James Get access Richard Shusterman Richard Shusterman Richard Shusterman Florida Atlantic University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 51, Issue 4, October 2011, Pages 347–361, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayr030 Published: 01 October 2011
Rap Remix
Form and Funk
FORM AND FUNK: THE AESTHETIC CHALLENGE OF POPULAR ART Get access Richard Shusterman Richard Shusterman Department of Philosophy, Temple UniversityPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 31, Issue 3, July 1991, Page 213, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/31.3.213 Published: 01 June 1991
Back to the Future
This paper originated as the keynote address at the conference "Aesthetics Today" organized by the Finnish Society of Aesthetics to mark its 40th anniversary and was delivered at the University of Helsinki on March 1, 2012. Written for that particular occasion the sense of an oral presentation has been maintained. Shusterman's point of departure is the thesis that contemporary aesthetics can be characterized by a number of leading themes that mar…
Somaesthetics and The Second Sex
This paper explains the discipline of somaesthetics, which emerges from pragmatism's concern with enhancing embodied experience and reconstructing the aesthetic in ways that make it more central to key philosophical concerns of knowledge, ethics, and politics. I then examine Beauvoir's complex treatment of the body in The Second Sex, assessing both her arguments that could support the pragmatic approach of somaes-thetics but also those that chall…
Sex, Emancipation, and Aesthetics
Thought in the Strenuous Mood
One striking way that William James characterized pragmatism was in terms of "the strenuous mood," a mood of energetic striving and willingness to endure difficulties and risks in the melioristic effort to improve experience. This paper explores the different ways that such mood (along with affect more generally) was central not only to James's pragmatism but that of C. S. Peirce and John Dewey and also finds important expression in Richard Rorty…
The Aesthetic
First coined in modernity, the aesthetic is a vague, polysemic and contested concept whose complexities arise from the variety of the ways it has been defined in the history of its theorization, but also in its formative prehistory in theories of art and beauty that preceded its modern coinage. After noting key points of that prehistory, the article traces three major modern tendencies in construing the aesthetic: as a special mode of sensory per…
Wittgenstein and Critical Reasoning
The Anomalous Nature of Literature
Journal Article THE ANOMALOUS NATURE OF LITERATURE Get access Richard Shusterman Richard Shusterman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 18, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1978, Pages 317–329, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/18.4.317 Published: 01 April 1978
Pierre Bourdieu and Pragmatist Aesthetics
After tracing Bourdieu's ambiguous role in pragmatism's recent reception in France and then outlining the many themes Bourdieu shares with pragmatism, this paper highlights the differences between pragmatist aesthetics and Bourdieu's aesthetic theory. Critically responding to Bourdieu's arguments against pragmatist aesthetics for its interest in activist theory and its defense of popular art and aesthetic experience, the paper examines the limits…
Autour du « monde de l'art
Dans le cadre des rencontres Contested Territories : Conversations in Practice qu'elle organise en partenariat avec la Chelsea School of Art and Design et la Naked Punch Review , la Tate Modern a réuni le 2 février 2006 Arthur Danto, Thierry de Duve et Richard Shusterman pour une table ronde portant sur le célèbre article publié par Danto en 1964, « Le monde de l'art 1 », et les questions qu'il continue de soulever. Voici la traduction de leurs e…
Body and the Arts
This essay examines how somaesthetics is related to the field of fine arts, though the scope of somaesthetics is indeed wider, extending into all practices of life in which we can enhance our perception and performance through improved somatic self-use and self-knowledge. I first explain the project of somaesthetics and why it is needed to counterbalance the strong tendencies in mod-ern aesthetics, beginning with its founder Alexander Baumgarten,…
What Pragmatism Means to Me
Le pragmatisme est une tradition complexe, au sein de laquelle le débat fait rage et dont les représentants défendent des positions philosophiques très variées, voire souvent incompatibles. Cet article expose dix thèmes fondamentaux qui jouent un rôle essentiel dans le pragmatisme tel que je le conçois et qui, pour la plupart, retiennent l’attention des principales figures du mouvement pragmatiste. Ces thèmes ne sont pas énumérés par ordre d’impo…
What Pragmatism Means to Me
Divertissement et art populaire
Richard Shusterman est d'abord connu pour ses importants travaux sur l'esthétique « populaire » et sur le rôle du corps dans la formation artistique et l'évaluation esthétique. L'art à l'état vif et La pensée pragmatiste et l'esthétique populaire (Minuit, 1992) qui prenaient la danse, et en particulier le hip-hop, comme domaine privilégié avaient suscité de vifs débats en France et à l'étranger. Mouvements n? 11 en avait rendu compte. Depuis La f…
La philosophie comme vie éveillée chez Emerson et Thoreau
Emerson et Thoreau ont donné à la philosophie le sens d'une manière de vivre, consacrée à l'élévation de la conscience et à l'amélioration de soi. Par leur conception esthétique de la vie philosophique, ils se situent dans une tradition qui va de Platon au pragmatisme, mais ils sont également proches de la pensée orientale par leur injonction à mener une vie éveillée, au sens bouddhiste. La réforme morale et l'esthétique de soi participent à un ê…
The Logic of Interpretation
Journal Article The Logic of Interpretation Get access Richard Shusterman Richard Shusterman St John's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 113, October 1978, Pages 310–324, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219083 Published: 01 October 1978
The Anomalous Nature of Literature
Journal Article THE ANOMALOUS NATURE OF LITERATURE Get access Richard Shusterman Richard Shusterman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 18, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1978, Pages 317–329, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/18.4.317 Published: 01 April 1978
The Logic of Evaluation
Journal Article The Logic of Evaluation Get access Richard Shusterman Richard Shusterman Ben Gurion University of the Negev Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 121, October 1980, Pages 327–341, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219526 Published: 01 October 1980
A Tension in Eliot's Poetics
Journal Article A TENSION IN ELIOT'S POETICS Get access Richard Shusterman Richard Shusterman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 20, Issue 3, SUMMER 1980, Pages 248–253, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/20.3.248 Published: 01 March 1980
Eliot and Logical Atomism
Positivism
Aesthetic Argument and Perceptual Persuasion
La influencia de Wittgenstein sobre la estética se siente, con particular fuerza, en relación con el argumento estético nos dice el Dr. Shusterman, quien engloba la contribución wittgensteiniana en este campo en tres temas principales. Al primero lo llama la ‘radical indetermnación de los conceptos estéticos’. Los conceptos que usamos en la crítica y reflexión sobre el arte pueden ser de dos clases; artísticos: los que definen el género (sinfonía…
Osborne and Moore on Organic Unity
Journal Article OSBORNE AND MOORE ON ORGANIC UNITY Get access Richard Shusterman Richard Shusterman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 23, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1983, Pages 352–359, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/23.4.352 Published: 01 April 1983
The Object of Literary Criticism
The intentionally ambiguous title of my thesis suggests both the notion of the object at which literary criticism is directed and also the notion of the objective toward which it is directed. The first involves the problems of the identity and ontological status of the literary work, while the second involves the two primary aims of literary criticism: interpretation and evaluation. These four issues are individually analyzed in separate chapters…
Books Reviews
BOOKS REVIEWS But is it Art?: The Value of Art and the Temptation of Theory. By B. R. TILGHMAN. Basil Blackwell. 1984. pp. 193. £15. RICHARD SHUSTERMAN RICHARD SHUSTERMAN Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 25, Issue 3, SUMMER 1985, Pages 285-b–288, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/25.3.285-b Published: 01 March 1985
Remembering Hulme
I. centenary of T. E. Hulme, born on September 16, 1983, has passed with surprising silence. I have scanned the notices of literary and aesthetic journals and have not found any conferences or publications to commemorate this event and remember the poet-critic-philosopher who not long ago held center stage as a still influential father of modernism and the New Criticism. Indeed, in the late thirties, Hulme's reputation was so great that a reviewe…
Wittgenstein and Critical Reasoning
Poetics and Current Analytic Aesthetics
Deconstruction and Analysis
Journal Article DECONSTRUCTION AND ANALYSIS: CONFRONTATION AND CONVERGENCE Get access Richard Shusterman Richard Shusterman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 26, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1986, Pages 311–327, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/26.4.311 Published: 01 April 1986
Ingarden, Inscription and Literary Ontology
Saving Art from Aesthetics
The relevance of the beautiful and other essays
(1988). The relevance of the beautiful and other essays. History of European Ideas: Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 751-752
Croce on Interpretation
Postmodernist Aestheticism
Contingencies of Value
1. Fixed Marks and Variable Constancies: A Parable of Value Evaluating Shakespeare's Sonnets Critical Problematics 2. The Exile of Evaluation Fact and Value in the Literary Academy The Politics of Evaluative Criticism An Alternative Project 3. Contingencies of Value Contingency and Interdependence Matters of Taste Processes of Evaluation The Dynamics of Endurance 4. Axiologic Logic Hume's Natural Standard Kant's Pure Judgments Logical Tastes and …
T. S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism
T. S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism
Art and Concept
Art and Concept:. Philosophical Study. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987, 127 pp
Postmodernism and the Aesthetic Turn
Beneath Interpretation
Journal Article Beneath Interpretation: Against Hermeneutic Holism Get access Richard Shusterman Richard Shusterman Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 73, Issue 2, 1 April 1990, Pages 181–204, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist199073225 Published: 09 December 2014
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