Pragmatism and the Somatic Turn: Shusterman's Somaesthetics and Beyond

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Submitted by David Gibbens on Wed, 01/04/2015 - 22:05
Collection/Volume: 
Metaphilosophy
Vol./ Issue: 
Vol. 46, No. 1, January 2015
Pages: 
141-161
Material Type: 
Review article
By: 
Voparil, Christopher J.
Giordano, John
Year: 
2015
Month: 
Jan
External Links: 
Link to article
Notes: 

Briefly situates Shusterman's work in the historical context of "embodiment" theories before moving on to review the following works:

  • Thinking Through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics. By Richard Shusterman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 368.
  • Shusterman's Pragmatism: Between Literature and Somaesthetics. Edited by Dorota Koczanowicz and Wojciech Małecki. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. Pp. 238.
  • Embodying Pragmatism: Richard Shusterman's Philosophy and Literary Theory. By Wojciech Małecki. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2010. Pp. 202.

A well-crafted overview.  The main niggle would be that Shusterman's engagement with the Feldenkrais method is not highlighted, so the discussion of Shusterman's "melioristic" agenda lacks the sense of what that means to Shusterman in practice.

Open access.

DOI/ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1111/meta.12118

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Knowledge domain: 
philosophy
somatics / somaesthetics