Critical Shusterman

Richard Shusterman is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. Now retired, Crispin Sartwell has taught philosophy at Vanderbilt University, the University of Alabama, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and Dickinson College.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Dance of Ideas: Richard Shusterman's Embodied PhilosophyCrispin SartwellI. Cognition, Interpretation, and Ontology1. Beneath Interpretation2. Experience: Foundation or Reconstruction?3. Organic Unity: Analysis and Deconstruction4. Affective Cognition: From Pragmatism to SomaestheticsII. Ethics and Politics5. Postmodern Ethics and the Art of Living6. Self-Knowledge and Its Discontents7. Dialectics of Multiculturalism: Ethics and Politics8. The Ethics of DemocracyIII. Aesthetics9. The End of Aesthetic Experience10. Art as Dramatization11. Entertainment: A Question for Aesthetics12. Art and ReligionIV. Somaesthetics13. Soma and Media14. Thinking through the Body, Educating for the Humanities15. Muscle Memory and the Somaesthetic Pathologies of Everyday Life16. Somaesthetics and PoliticsNotesBooks by Richard ShustermanBooks about Richard ShustermanFilms about Richard ShustermanIndex

"The Critical Shusterman is a stunning collection of writings from Richard Shusterman's philosophical corpus. It introduces the rich contributions of a philosopher who has an uncanny feel for his subjects, including pragmatism, aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, and hermeneutics … No matter where you are on your professional journey, Shusterman's work provides a sense of broader philosophical debates, tensions, and possibilities. He equips readers to have a better view of wider philosophical landscapes, thereby enriching their capacity for theoretical discernment and philosophical reflexivity. For early-career graduate students and junior scholars, this is an especially valuable gift." — Contemporary Pragmatism"This collection offers an accessible assemblage of Richard Shusterman's prolific philosophical, critical, and interpretive essays, prefaced by a very illuminating interpretative essay by Crispin Sartwell that conveys the coherence and power of Shusterman's larger project of cultivating embodied thinking and self-reflective living. The ever-expanding breadth and depth of Shusterman's oeuvre and wide transdisciplinary influence create a need for The Critical Shusterman, which will be a boon to anyone who has encountered one of the many axes of his multipronged body of work." — Chris Voparil, Lynn University