Collecting sixteen key texts on a broad range of key philosophical topics enables readers to perceive the scope of Shusterman's philosophy and appreciate its systematic aspects.
Richard Shusterman is one of today's foremost philosophers. His influential and widely translated work is distinctive for its originality and its integration of multiple philosophical perspectives (analytic philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics, critical theory, and East Asian thought) to create a new transcultural pragmatist vision. Although most famous for his groundbreaking writings in aesthetics, somatic philosophy, and philosophy as an art of living, these texts are integrally connected with Shusterman's vital views on ontology, epistemology, and philosophy of mind, ethics, and politics. Collecting sixteen key texts on this broad range of topics, The Critical Shusterman enables readers to perceive the scope of Shusterman's philosophy and appreciate its systematic aspects. Editor Crispin Sartwell's superb introduction highlights those aspects in assessing Shusterman's thought in the context of contemporary philosophy while suggesting ways that Shusterman's project could be developed in the future.
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Dance of Ideas: Richard Shusterman's Embodied Philosophy Crispin Sartwell I. Cognition, Interpretation, and Ontology 1. Beneath Interpretation 2. Experience: Foundation or Reconstruction? 3. Organic Unity: Analysis and Deconstruction 4. Affective Cognition: From Pragmatism to Somaesthetics II. Ethics and Politics 5. Postmodern Ethics and the Art of Living 6. Self-Knowledge and Its Discontents 7. Dialectics of Multiculturalism: Ethics and Politics 8. The Ethics of Democracy III. Aesthetics 9. The End of Aesthetic Experience 10. Art as Dramatization 11. Entertainment: A Question for Aesthetics 12. Art and Religion IV. Somaesthetics 13. Soma and Media 14. Thinking through the Body, Educating for the Humanities 15. Muscle Memory and the Somaesthetic Pathologies of Everyday Life 16. Somaesthetics and Politics Notes Books by Richard Shusterman Books about Richard Shusterman Films about Richard Shusterman Index
Richard Shusterman is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. Now retired, Crispin Sartwell has taught philosophy at Vanderbilt University, the University of Alabama, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and Dickinson College.
Reviews for The Critical Shusterman
""This collection offers an accessible assemblage of Richard Shusterman's prolific philosophical, critical, and interpretive essays, prefaced by a very illuminating interpretative essay by Crispin Sartwell that conveys the coherence and power of Shusterman's larger project of cultivating embodied thinking and self-reflective living. The ever-expanding breadth and depth of Shusterman's oeuvre and wide transdisciplinary influence create a need for The Critical Shusterman, which will be a boon to anyone who has encountered one of the many axes of his multipronged body of work."" — Chris Voparil, Lynn University
