Cambridge University Press eBooks· 2012· Book chapter
Thinking through the Body
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Short summary
This book introduces somaesthetics, an interdisciplinary field exploring the body's role in knowledge, consciousness, and aesthetics, integrating Western and Eastern philosophies with somatic practices.
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Key points
- Introduces somaesthetics, a field focused on the body's role in knowledge, consciousness, and behavior.
- Integrates Western philosophy, cognitive science, and somatic methodologies with classical Asian theories.
- Applies somaesthetic insights to ethics, education, cultural politics, consciousness studies, sexuality, and the arts.
- Analyzes aesthetic concepts and embodiment in drama, dance, architecture, and photography.
- Includes somaesthetic exercises and explores the 'ars erotica' as an art of living.
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Abstract
This book provides a richly rewarding vision of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. Composed of fourteen wide-ranging but finely integrated essays by Richard Shusterman, the originator of the field, Thinking through the Body explains the philosophical foundations of somaesthetics and applies its insights to central issues in ethics, education, cultural politics, consciousness studies, sexuality and the arts. Integrating Western philosophy, cognitive science and somatic methodologies with classical Asian theories of body, mind and action, these essays probe the nature of somatic existence and the role of body consciousness in knowledge, memory and behavior. Deploying somaesthetic perspectives to analyze key aesthetic concepts (such as style and the sublime), he offers detailed studies of embodiment in drama, dance, architecture and photography. The volume also includes somaesthetic exercises for the classroom and explores the ars erotica as an art of living.
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