On the Path of Somaesthetics: An Interview with Richard Shusterman

Yanping Gao

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468801_016

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This chapter is based on an extended interview (conducted online because of the covid lockdown) that interrogates various topics central to Shustermanâs thought. The interview begins with Shustermanâs brief on the value of interviews for philosophical communication and with some brief remarks on the relation of somaesthetics to the problems of covid. The chapter then considers the reasons for the very positive reception of somaesthetics in China and what Shusterman has learned from classical Chinese thought. This is followed by a discussion of the role of affect in Shustermanâs thought and its relationship to Spinoza and Deleuze, which leads into a discussion of how Shusterman moved from his early work in literary theory to increasing focus on somaesthetics and visual arts. Here Shustermanâs background in disciplines of somatic training is explored. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the relation of somaesthetics to issues of disability and eroticism and the complexity of ethical questions and norms involved in these issues. With respect to the latter, Shusterman alludes to his new book Ars Erotica, which was published the year following the interview.

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Shustermanâs Somaesthetics

From Hip Hop Philosophy to Politics and Performance Art

Series:Â Studies in Somaesthetics, Volume: 4

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004468801

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 07 Apr 2022

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Part 1 Pragmatism and Somaesthetics

Part 2 Performative Philosophy and the Man in Gold

Part 3 Shusterman in His Own Words

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