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Beauty, Responsibility, and Power
Ethical and Political Consequences of Pragmatist Aesthetics
Series: - Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 277
- Central European Value Studies, Volume: 277
This 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 aesthetics ties in with vital social and ethical problems of modernity. Most of the contributors refer to the model propounded by Richard Shusterman. Following in Deweyâs footsteps, Shusterman has elaborated and expanded his concept, adding new dimensions to it. The most important supplement is the idea of aesthetic experience being constituted by our bodiliness. In somaesthetics, pragmatism has acquired a new dimension â a fully developed, comprehensive aesthetic theory. Pragmatist aesthetics with its essential notion of the body engages in critical dialogue with many key concepts of modernity which locate the body in social and cultural frameworks. The articles collected in this volume illustrate the complex range of pragmatist aesthetics and its impact on the understanding of crucial issues in social and moral philosophy.
âBeauty and Actionâ, Leszek Koczanowicz and Katarzyna Liszka Part One: Politics, Community, and the City âSomaesthetics and Politics: Incorporating Pragmatist Aesthetics for Social Actionâ, Richard Shusterman âEmbodied Communitiesâ, Leszek Koczanowicz âOstentation and Agoraphobia in the Cityâ, Adam Chmielewski Part Two: Aesthetic Experience ââAnything Goesâ vs. âWho Touches this Book Touches a Manâ: William James and Paul Feyerabend on Metaphysical, Ethical, and Aesthetic âAbundanceââ, Sami Pihlström âAesthetics as Duty or Aesthetics as Faith: Notes on Richard Shustermanâs Pragmatist Aesthetics, with Reference to Adorno and Castoriadisâ, David Schauffler Part Three: Ethics, Humanism, and Social Hope âThe Linguistic World: Rortyâs Aesthetic Meliorismâ, Rosa M. Calcaterra âThe Concept of Man in the Shadow of the Shoah: Geras, Rorty and Shusterman in Dialogueâ, Katarzyna Liszka âExperience and Judgment: Political and Aestheticâ, John Ryder âSomaesthetic Encounter with Oneself and the Otherâ, Robert Dobrowolski Part Four: Art of Living and Life Politics âMaking the Pragmatist Art of Living Explicitâ, Emil ViÅ¡novský âThe Aesthetic Cosmopolitan from a Neo-Pragmatist Perspective: Themes and Challenges in Shustermanâ, Michael Rings âPhilosophical Anthropology in Life Politics of Todayâ, Hans-Peter Krüger About the Contributors Index