• Dorota Koczanowicz and Wojciech Małecki: IntroductionRichard Shusterman: A Pragmatist Path through the Play of Limits: from Literature to SomaestheticsLiterary Theory and Philosophy of ArtAnna Budziak: The Idea of Emotion in T. S. Eliot and in Richard ShustermanKacper Bartczak: Neo-pragmatist Models of Self-Development and the Poetic Subjectivity in John Ashbery’s PoetryWojciech Małecki: Challenging the Taboo of the AutobiographicalDorota Koczanowicz: “You Must Change Your Life”: Pragmatism and the Therapeutic Function of ArtEpistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, and PoliticsSami Pihlström: Philosophy and Life: Pragmatism, Wittgenstein, and MetaphysicsAdam Chmielewski: Faith and the Limits of FallibilismDon Morse: Erotic Pragmatism: Shusterman’s Deweyan AdvancesJerold J. Abrams: Shusterman and the Paradoxes of Superhuman Self-StylingSomaestheticsMonika Bokiniec: “Body Trouble”? Somaesthetics and FeminismKrzysztof Piotr Skowroński: Aesthetics and Corporal ValuesRobert Dobrowolski: Sampling (No)BodyMartin Jay: Somaesthetics and Democracy: Dewey and Contemporary Body ArtRichard Shusterman: Continuing Connections: Comments on the Preceding EssaysAbout the ContributorsIndex

"There are few contemporary thinkers in the tradition of American pragmatism as prolific or as creative as Richard Shusterman. His thought and work range from analytic aesthetics to political philosophy, from ethics to the importance of bodily habits in modern society. … Th[is] volume … highlights the remarkable international reception of Shusterman’s ideas. … [it] represents a valuable and unique contribution to contemporary pragmatism. No serious student of Dewey’s pragmatism or of Shusterman’s continually developing project of somaesthetics should be without this book on their shelves." – in: Journal of Aesthetic Education (2014)"the articles of the collection make up a nice read …" – in: Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 28/4