Thinking through the body
Subtitle: essays in somaesthetics
By: Richard Shusterman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781107019065
Subjects: Philosophy; Human body (Philosophy); Aesthetics; Study and teaching (Higher); Humanities
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Thinking through the body: educating for the humanities; title: The body as background; title: Self-knowledge and its discontents: from Socrates to somaesthetics; title: Muscle memory and the somaesthetic pathologies of everyday life; title: Somaesthetics in the philosophy classroom: a practical approach; title: Somaesthetics and the limits of aesthetics; title: Somaesthetics and Burke's sublime; title: Pragmatism and cultural politics: from textualism to somaesthetics; title: Body consciousness and performance; title: Somaesthetics and architecture: a critical option; title: Photography as performative process; title: Asian ars erotica and the question of sexual aesthetics; title: Philosophy as awakened life : everyday aesthetics of embodiment in American transcendentalism and Japanese Zen practice; title: Somatic style.