Somaesthetics and The Second Sex

A Pragmatist Reading of a Feminist Classic

Bibliographic Data

ID12145693
AuthorsRichard Shusterman (0000-0002-0467-9781, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume18
Issue4
Pages106-136
Publication date2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHypatia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1527-2001.2003.tb01415.x
OpenAlexW1999835648
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited28

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 challenge its bodily focus as a danger for feminism

Aesthetics · Close reading · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Feminism · Focus (optics · Key (lock · Political science · Politics · Pragmatism · Reading (process · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History · Psychology · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre

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