Bøger af Richard Shusterman

Applying contemporary pragmatism to the crucial question of how philosophy can help us live better, the author develops his aesthetic model of philosophical living that includes politics, somatics and ethnicity. The text includes discussion of major 20th-century pragmatists.

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...

By articulating a deeply embodied notion of aesthetic experience and the art of living, and providing a compellingly rigorous defense of popular art, this volume re-orients aesthetics towards a fresher and socially progressive agenda.

A paradox of surface and depth pervades the field of aesthetics. How can art's surface meanings and qualities be properly appreciated without understanding the cultural context that shapes their creation and perception? But exploring such underlying...