Aesthetic experience and somaesthetics
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Aesthetic experience and somaesthetics
(Studies in somaesthetics : embodied perspectives in philosophy, the arts and the human sciences / edited by Richard Shusterman, v. 1)
Brill, c2018
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This collection of essays explores the crucial connections between aesthetic experience and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, while further advancing inquiry in both. After the editor's introduction and three articles examining philosophical accounts of embodiment and aesthetic experience in existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and pragmatism, the book's nine remaining articles apply somaesthetic theory to the fine arts (including detailed studies of the body's role in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, music, photography, and cinema) but also to diverse arts of living, considering such topics as cosmetics and sexual practice. These interdisciplinary, multicultural essays are written by a distinctively international group of experts, ranging from Asia (China and India) to Europe (Denmark, Finland, Hungary, and Italy) and the United States.
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Acknowledgments
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics
Richard Shusterman
Part 1: Embodiment in Philosophy and Aesthetic Experience
1 Nietzsche on Embodiment: A Proto-somaesthetics?
Catherine F. Botha
2 Experience and Aesthetics
Bela Bacso
3 Art as Experience: Gadamer and Pragmatist Aesthetics
Alexander Kremer
Part 2: Somaesthetic Approaches to the Fine Arts
4 Olafur Eliasson, Art as Embodied and Interdisciplinary Experience: In Dialogue with Else Marie Bukdahl
Else Marie Bukdahl
5 Winckelmann's Haptic Gaze: A Somaesthetic Interpretation
Yanping Gao
6 Rethinking Aesthetics through Architecture?
Balint Veres
7 "The Co-Presence of Something Regular": Wordsworth's Aesthetics of Prosody
John Golden
8 Singing, Listening, Proprioceiving: Some Reflections on Vocal Somaesthetics
Anne Tarvainen
Part 3: Somaesthetics in the Photographic Arts and the Art of Living
9 Spectral Absence and Bodily Presence: Performative Writings on Photography
Eva Antal
10 Cosmetic Practices: The Intersection with Aesthetics and Medicine
Elisabetta Di Stefano
11 Santayana on Embodiment, the Art of Living, and Sexual Aesthetics
Nora Horvath
12 Thinking through the Body of Maya: Somaesthetic Frames from Mira Nair's Kamasutra
Vinod Balakrishnan and Swathi Elizabeth Kurian
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