Article
Shusterman’s Thinking Through the Body and Everyday Aesthetics
Contemporary Pragmatism
(2015)
Abstract
How does Richard Shusterman’s Thinking Through the Bodyapply to the issues of everyday aesthetics? As it turns out, many chapters contribute significantly to everyday aesthetics, in particular the work on architecture, self-styling, the body as background, lovemaking, and the process of making a photographic portrait. Shusterman’s concentration on the art of living has special importance to everyday aesthetics. Current debates within the field of everyday aesthetics also raise problems for somaesthetics. I also question the limits of somaesthetics and Shusterman’s rejection of defamiliarization in making the ordinary extraordinary.
Keywords
- somaesthetics,
- Richard Shusterman,
- Thomas Leddy,
- everyday aesthetics,
- Thinking Through the Body
Disciplines
- Philosophy and
- Aesthetics
Publication Date
2015
DOI
10.1163/18758185-01201005
Publisher Statement
This is the Postprint of an article that appeared in Contemporary Pragmatism, 12, 1, 2015. The Version of Record is available at the following link.
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Citation Information
Tom Leddy. "Shusterman’s Thinking Through the Body and Everyday Aesthetics" Contemporary Pragmatism Vol. 12 Iss. 1 (2015) p. 79 - 99 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tom_leddy/191/