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The Critical Shusterman by Richard Shusterman 9798855802504
RRP: £102.00Booksplease Price: £82.75Collecting 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... -
Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics by Richard Shusterman
Booksplease Price: £56.33This collection of essays explores the crucial connections between aesthetic experience and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, while further advancing inquiry in both. After the editor's... -
Philosophy and the Art of Writing by Richard Shusterman 9781032230801
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Philosophy 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... -
Thinking through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics by Richard Shusterman
Booksplease Price: £33.50This 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... -
Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life by Richard Shusterman
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Applying 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,... -
Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics by Richard Shusterman
Booksplease Price: £27.60Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress, and a variety of personal and social discontents generated by deceptive body images. This book... -
Surface and Depth: Dialectics of Criticism and Culture by Richard Shusterman
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £20.89A 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... -
Richard Shusterman's Somaesthetics: Philosophy and Aesthetics Alexander Kremer 9781666940671
Booksplease Price: £85.65Against the background of selected themes in contemporary philosophy, this book argues that Richard Shusterman's somaesthetics is not only an aesthetics but, first of all, it is a philosophy.The book... -
Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art by Richard Shusterman
Booksplease Price: £27.88Current 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... -
Bourdieu: A Critical Reader Richard Shusterman (Temple University) 9780631188186
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £37.12This Critical Reader provides a new perspective on the work of France's foremost social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, by examining its philosophical import and promoting a fruitful dialogue between... -
Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics by Richard Shusterman 9780521858908
Booksplease Price: £82.70Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress, and a variety of personal and social discontents generated by deceptive body images. This book... -
Thinking through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics by Richard Shusterman 9781107019065
Booksplease Price: £102.51This 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... -
Bodies in the Streets: The Somaesthetics of City Life by Richard Shusterman 9789004516595
Booksplease Price: £85.46Cities are defined by their complex network of busy streets and the multitudes of people that animate them through physical presence and bodily actions that often differ dramatically: elegant... -
Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love by Richard Shusterman
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.20The term ars erotica refers to the styles and techniques of lovemaking with the honorific title of art. But in what sense are these practices artistic and how do they contribute to the aesthetics and... -
Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art by Richard Shusterman 9780801437533
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £93.02Current 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... -
Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art by Richard Shusterman 9780847697656
Booksplease Price: £43.33This much acclaimed book has emerged as neo-pragmatism's most significant contribution to contemporary aesthetics. By articulating a deeply embodied notion of aesthetic experience and the art of... -
The Media of Photography by Diarmuid Costello 9781118269015
Booksplease Price: £40.35Two events in particular occasion this volume on the philosophy of photography: the blurring of boundaries that many took to demarcate photographic technology and practices from other... -
Artworks: Meaning, Definition, Value by Robert Stecker 9780271015965
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.91What is art? What is it to understand a work of art? What is the value of art? Robert Stecker seeks to answer these central questions of aesthetics by placing them within the context of an ongoing... -
Art and Its Messages: Meaning, Morality, and Society by Stephen Davies
Booksplease Price: £23.00This volume brings together essays by leading philosophers of art who consider what can be learned from the meaning of art about society, morality, and life in general. This subject inevitably leads... -
Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters: The Relevance of Ancient Wisdom for the Global Age by Ming Dong Gu 9780367356125
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Traditional Chinese philosophy, if engaged at all, is often regarded as an object of antiquated curiosity and dismissed as unimportant in the current age of globalization.Written by a team of... -
Transformative Aesthetics by Erika Fischer-Lichte 9780367736002
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Aesthetic theory in the West has, until now, been dominated by ideas of effect, autonomy, and reception. Transformative Aesthetics uncovers these theories' mutual concern with the transformation of... -
Rethinking Aesthetics: The Role of Body in Design Ritu Bhatt (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA) 9780415534758
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between... -
Practicing Pragmatist Aesthetics: Critical Perspectives on the Arts by Wojciech Małecki 9789042038363
Booksplease Price: £68.92This is the first collection in English devoted exclusively to pragmatist aesthetics. Its main aim is to employ the resources of that rich and exciting tradition in studying artistic phenomena such... -
Shusterman's Somaesthetics: From Hip Hop Philosophy to Politics and Performance Art by Jerold J. Abrams 9789004468795
Booksplease Price: £113.32This edited collection provides an in-depth and wide-ranging exploration of pragmatist philosopher Richard Shusterman's distinctive project of "somaesthetics," devoted not only to better... -
Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts David Goldblatt 9781138235885
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.20Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical... -
Shusterman's Pragmatism: Between Literature and Somaesthetics by Dorota Koczanowicz 9789042034860
Booksplease Price: £83.88This book is the first essay collection on Richard Shusterman, the foremost representative of contemporary pragmatist aesthetics, a philosopher whose books have been translated into more than fifteen... -
Shusterman’s Somaesthetics: From Hip Hop Philosophy to Politics and Performance Art by Jerold J. Abrams 9789004470545
Booksplease Price: £40.59This edited collection provides an in-depth and wide-ranging exploration of pragmatist philosopher Richard Shusterman's distinctive project of "somaesthetics," devoted not only to better... -
Beauty, Responsibility, and Power: Ethical and Political Consequences of Pragmatist Aesthetics by Leszek Koczanowicz 9789042038790
Booksplease Price: £63.41This book addresses the interrelations between aesthetics, ethics, and politics in the framework of pragmatist aesthetics, offering a comprehensive panorama of the ways and fields in which pragmatist... -
Somaesthetics and the Philosophy of Culture: Projects in Japan by Satoshi Higuchi 9780367743086
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24“I regard Higuchi’s book as particularly valuable because it highlights dimensions of somaesthetics that have not been sufficiently explored. I refer not only to the various traditional Japanese... -
Richard Rorty: From Pragmatist Philosophy to Cultural Politics by Alexander Groeschner 9781472589279
Booksplease Price: £40.79Richard Rorty was one of the most important philosophers of the last half of the twentieth century. His work helped effect global transformations in the way philosophy thinks about its work and role... -
Somaesthetics and the Philosophy of Culture: Projects in Japan by Satoshi Higuchi 9780367443436
RRP: £155.00Booksplease Price: £43.52"I regard Higuchi's book as particularly valuable because it highlights dimensions of somaesthetics that have not been sufficiently explored. I refer not only to the various traditional Japanese... -
Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman's Somaesthetics: Ethics, Politics, and the Art of Living Valentina Antoniol 9781350384835
Booksplease Price: £30.54Bringing together Michel Foucault's aesthetics of existence and Richard Shusterman's somaesthetics, this volume provides a critical comparison of two of the most influential philosophical theories of... -
Knowing without Thinking: Mind, Action, Cognition and the Phenomenon of the Background by Zdravko Radman 9780230285132
Booksplease Price: £46.28A volume devoted explicitly to the subtle and multidimensional phenomenon of background knowing that has to be recognized as an important element of the triad mind-body-world. The essays are inspired... -
Continental Aesthetics: Romanticism to Postmodernism: An Anthology Richard Kearney (University College Dublin) 9780631216117
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £37.42This comprehensive anthology provides a collection of classic and contemporary readings in continental aesthetics. Spanning Romanticism through Modernism to Postmodernism, the volume includes... -
Experience Music Experiment: Pragmatism and Artistic Research William Brooks 9789462702790
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £21.20Truth happens to an idea. So wrote William James in 1907; and twenty-four years later John Dewey argued that artistic experience entailed a process of doing and undergoing. But what do these ideas... -
100 Years of Pragmatism: William James's Revolutionary Philosophy by John Stuhr
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68William James claimed that his Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking would prove triumphant and epoch-making. Today, after more than 100 years, how is pragmatism to be understood? What... -
Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman's Somaesthetics: Ethics, Politics, and the Art of Living Valentina Antoniol 9781350384804
Booksplease Price: £90.57Bringing together Michel Foucault's aesthetics of existence and Richard Shusterman's somaesthetics, this volume provides a critical comparison of two of the most influential philosophical theories of... -
John Dewey: Rethinking Our Time by Raymond D. Boisvert 9780791435304
Booksplease Price: £25.65CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic BooksWritten in a manner accessible to non-specialists, this book provides an introduction to all areas central to John Dewey's philosophy: aesthetics, social and... -
Fashion: Seductive Play Eugen Fink 9781350200395
Booksplease Price: £31.92In Germany, 1969, Eugen Fink's Fashion: Seductive Play was published. This first English language edition, updated with an introduction by Stefano Marino and Giovanni Matteucci, makes available... -
Fashion: Seductive Play by Eugen Fink 9781350200388
Booksplease Price: £98.79In Germany, 1969, Eugen Fink's Fashion: Seductive Play was published. This first English language edition, updated with an introduction by Stefano Marino and Giovanni Matteucci, makes available...