Background
Shusterman, Richard Marc was born on December 3, 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Murray H. and Judith Carol (Weiner) Shusterman.
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Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art
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This much acclaimed book has emerged as neo-pragmatism's most significant contribution to contemporary aesthetics. By articulating a deeply embodied notion of aesthetic experience and the art of living, and by providing a compellingly rigorous defense of popular art―crowned by a pioneer study of hip hop―Richard Shusterman reorients aesthetics towards a fresher, more relevant, and socially progressive agenda. The second edition contains an introduction where Shusterman responds to his critics, and it concludes with an added chapter that formulates his novel notion of somaesthetics.
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Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art (Paperback) - Common
(By articulating a deeply embodied notion of aesthetic exp...)
By articulating a deeply embodied notion of aesthetic experience and the art of living, and providing a compellingly rigorous defense of popular art, this volume re-orients aesthetics towards a fresher and socially progressive agenda.
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Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art 2nd edition by Shusterman, Richard (2000) Paperback
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[(Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art)] [Author: Richard Shusterman] published on (June, 2000)
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The Little Seagull Handbook (Second Edition)
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A pocket-sized handbook that's easy to use and covers the kinds of writing college students need to do. The Little Seagull Handbook offers the kind of succinct advice students need about grammar, punctuation, documentation, and the writing process―an in addition, it covers the kinds of writing they are most often assigned―reports, analyses, narratives, and more. The second edition includes unique help for students whose primary language is not English. Available in two versions―with and without exercises.
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The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises (Second Edition)
( A pocket-sized handbook that's easy to use and covers t...)
A pocket-sized handbook that's easy to use and covers the kinds of writing college students need to do. The Little Seagull Handbook offers the kind of succinct advice students need about grammar, punctuation, documentation, and the writing process―an in addition, it covers the kinds of writing they are most often assigned―reports, analyses, narratives, and more. The second edition includes unique help for students whose primary language is not English. Available in two versions―with and without exercises.
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Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life
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Applying contemporary pragmatism to the crucial question of how philosophy can help us live better, Shusterman develops his distinctive aesthetic model of philosophical living that includes politics, somatics, and ethnicity, while critically engaging the rival views of Dewey, Wittgenstein, and Foucault, as well as Rorty, Putnam, Goodman, Habermas, and Cavell.
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Performing Live : Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art
(Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by vis...)
Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by visions of its end and lamentations of decline. Defining the very notions of art and the aesthetic as special products of Western modernity, they suggest that postmodern challenges to traditional high culture pose a devastating danger to art's future. Richard Shusterman's new book cuts through the seductive confusions of these views by tracing the earthy roots of aesthetic experience and showing how the recent flourishing of aesthetic forms outside modernity's sacralized realm of fine art evince the persistent presence of an artistic impulse far deeper and more durable than the modernist moment. Performing Live defends the abiding power of aesthetic experience by exploring its diverse roles, methods, and meanings, especially in fields marginal to traditional aesthetics but now most vibrantly alive in today's culture and new media. Ranging from rap, techno, and country music to cinema, cyberspace and urban design, Shusterman develops his radical theory of "somaesthetics," charting the complex network of bodily arts so prominent in contemporary life and self-styling. By blending concrete aesthetic analysis with insightful social critique, Shusterman, a well-known pragmatist philosopher, provides a rich menu and critical guide for today's pursuit of the art of living.
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Philosophie als Lebenspraxis.
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Vivre La Philosophie: Pragmatisme Et Art De Vivre (Collection D'esthetique) (French Edition)
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Surface and Depth: Dialectics of Criticism and Culture
(A paradox of surface and depth pervades the field of aest...)
A paradox of surface and depth pervades the field of aesthetics. How can art's surface meanings and qualities be properly appreciated without understanding the cultural context that shapes their creation and perception? But exploring such underlying cultural conditions challenges the perception of thosequalities and meanings of aesthetic surface that constitute the captivating power of art. If aesthetics deals with both surface and depth, impassioned immediacy yet also critical distance of judgment, how can this doubleness be held together in one philosophical vision?In his new book, Richard Shusterman explores the dialectics of surface and depth by examining key issues in the philosophy of art and culture—from the logic of interpretation and evaluation to the roots of taste and convention, from the meanings of aesthetic purity and immediacy to the role of nature, theory, and history in our experience and understanding of art. In treating these topics, Shusterman combines the methods of analytic philosophy, critical theory, and poststructualism to arrive at new positions, displaying the philosophical versatility, originality of vision, and graceful, accessible writing that have become his trademark. Surface and Depth is crowned by a new definition of art as dramatization.
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Conscience du corps : Pour une soma-esthétique
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Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life 1st edition by Shusterman, Richard (1996) Paperback
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Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life Paperback - December 26, 1996
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Poetics Today (Special Issue: Literature, Interpretation, Communication, Theory and Analysis)
(studies include Faulkner, Lolita, Emma, e. e. cummings, M...)
studies include Faulkner, Lolita, Emma, e. e. cummings, Mad Magazine, trends in German literary semiotics
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Performing Live (I'm In the Band)
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This is a vibrant and engaging book for aspiring young musicians who want to learn the ins and outs of being in a band in the digital age. This book looks at the art of performance, covering composing, rehearsing, and performing live.
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Poetics Today - International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication - (Winter 1997, Volume 18, Number 4)
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Performing Live : Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art 1st edition by Shusterman, Richard (2000) Paperback
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Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art (Paperback) - Common
(Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by vis...)
Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by visions of its end and lamentations of decline. Defining the very notions of art and the aesthetic as special products of Western modernity, they suggest that postmodern challenges to traditional...
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[(Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art )] [Author: Richard Shusterman] [Dec-2000]
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Surface and Depth: Dialectics of Criticism and Culture by Shusterman, Richard (2002) Paperback
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- The object of literary criticism (Elementa : Schriften zur Philosophie und ihrer Problemgeschichte)
- Pragmatist Aesthetics
- "Interpretation in Context in Science and Culture" special issue of Poetics Today, vol. 9, no. 2(1988)
- Analytic aesthetics (The Journal of aesthetics and art criticism) (The so-called analytic approach has dominated Anglo-Ameri...)
Other Work
- Author: The Object of Literary Criticism, 1984, Thomas Stearns Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism, 1988, Pragmatist Aesthetics, 1992, second edition, 2000, L'art à l'état vif, 1992, Kunst Leben, 1994, Sous l'interpretation, 1994, Practicing Philosophy, 1997, Performing Live, 2000, Philosophie als Lebenspraxis, 2001, Vivre la Philosophie, 2001, Surface and Depth, 2002, Conscience du Corps, 2007, Body Conciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaethetics, 2008. Editor: Analytic Aesthetics, 1989, Relativism, Interpretation, and the Metaphysics of Culture, 1999, Bourdieu: A Critical Reader, The Range of Pragmatism and the Limits of Philosophy, Aesthetic Experience. Member editorial board Journal Metaphilosophy, 1993, Yeats-Eliot Review, 1988, Constellations, 1993, Poetics Today, 1997, Journal Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1999, Journal Speculative Philosophy, 1999, Contemporary Pragmatism, 2010.
Richard Marc Shusterman Edit Profile
Richard Marc Shusterman, Israeli philosophy educator. Recipient Research award Israeli National Lottery Foundation, 1975; grantee National Endowment of the Humanities, 1988, American Council Learned Societies, 1988; fellow National Endowment of the Humanities, 1990, Fulbright Foundation, 1995-1996, Humboldt Transcoop, 2006-2009, French Ordre des Palmes Académique.
Education
Bachelor magna cum laude, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1972. Master of Arts magna cum laude, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University, 1979.
Career
Lecturer Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, 1980-1982, senior lecturer Israel, 1983-1987. Lecturer Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, 1980-1981, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1981-1983. Associate professor Temple University, Philadelphia, 1985-1992, professor, 1992—2004, chair department philosophy, 1998—2004.
Schmidt eminent scholar chair in humanities Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, since 2005. Visiting fellow St. John's College Oxford University, England, 1984-1985. Visiting professor College International de Philosophie, Paris, 1990-1992, program director, since 1995.
Visiting professor New School Social Research, New York City, 1992-2002. Visiting professor Hiroshima University, Japan, 2002-2003. Director d'Etudes associés Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris, 1990.
Fulbright professor, Berlin, 1995-1996. Visiting professor University Paris, 09-10.
Works
book
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Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life
(Applying contemporary pragmatism to the crucial question ...)
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Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art (Paperback) - Common
(By articulating a deeply embodied notion of aesthetic exp...)
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Performing Live (I'm In the Band)
(This is a vibrant and engaging book for aspiring young m...)
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Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art
(This much acclaimed book has emerged as neo-pragmatism's ...)
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Analytic aesthetics (The Journal of aesthetics and art criticism)
(The so-called analytic approach has dominated Anglo-Ameri...)
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The Little Seagull Handbook (Second Edition)
( A pocket-sized handbook that's easy to use and covers t...)
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The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises (Second Edition)
( A pocket-sized handbook that's easy to use and covers t...)
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Performing Live : Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art
(Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by vis...)
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Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art (Paperback) - Common
(Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by vis...)
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Surface and Depth: Dialectics of Criticism and Culture
(A paradox of surface and depth pervades the field of aest...)
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Poetics Today (Special Issue: Literature, Interpretation, Communication, Theory and Analysis)
(studies include Faulkner, Lolita, Emma, e. e. cummings, M...)
- The object of literary criticism (Elementa : Schriften zur Philosophie und ihrer Problemgeschichte)
- Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art 2nd edition by Shusterman, Richard (2000) Paperback
- [(Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art)] [Author: Richard Shusterman] published on (June, 2000)
- Pragmatist Aesthetics
- Philosophie als Lebenspraxis.
- Vivre La Philosophie: Pragmatisme Et Art De Vivre (Collection D'esthetique) (French Edition)
- Conscience du corps : Pour une soma-esthétique
- Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life 1st edition by Shusterman, Richard (1996) Paperback
- Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life Paperback - December 26, 1996
- Poetics Today - International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication - (Winter 1997, Volume 18, Number 4)
- Performing Live : Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art 1st edition by Shusterman, Richard (2000) Paperback
- "Interpretation in Context in Science and Culture" special issue of Poetics Today, vol. 9, no. 2(1988)
- [(Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art )] [Author: Richard Shusterman] [Dec-2000]
- Surface and Depth: Dialectics of Criticism and Culture by Shusterman, Richard (2002) Paperback
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Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life
Other Work
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Author: The Object of Literary Criticism, 1984, Thomas Stearns Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism, 1988, Pragmatist Aesthetics, 1992, second edition, 2000, L'art à l'état vif, 1992, Kunst Leben, 1994, Sous l'interpretation, 1994, Practicing Philosophy, 1997, Performing Live, 2000, Philosophie als Lebenspraxis, 2001, Vivre la Philosophie, 2001, Surface and Depth, 2002, Conscience du Corps, 2007, Body Conciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaethetics, 2008. Editor: Analytic Aesthetics, 1989, Relativism, Interpretation, and the Metaphysics of Culture, 1999, Bourdieu: A Critical Reader, The Range of Pragmatism and the Limits of Philosophy, Aesthetic Experience. Member editorial board Journal Metaphilosophy, 1993, Yeats-Eliot Review, 1988, Constellations, 1993, Poetics Today, 1997, Journal Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1999, Journal Speculative Philosophy, 1999, Contemporary Pragmatism, 2010.
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Membership
Fellow: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, member American Philosophical Association (advisor to program committee 1989-1992), American Society for Aesthetics (steering committee 1989-1992, trustee 2000-2003), Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium (associate director 1991-2004), Society Advancement American Philosophy, Feldenkrais Guild.
Interests
Connections
Married Rivka Nahmani, August 16, 1970 (divorced October 1987). Children: Damon, Aelia, Eden. Married Erica Ando, March 14, 2000.
1 child, Talia.
Education
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1972
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1979
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1985 - 1992
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Recipient Research award Israeli National LotteRecipient Research award Israeli National Lottery Foundation, 1975. Grantee National Endowment of the Humanities, 1988, American Council Learned Societies, 1988. Fellow National Endowment of the Humanities, 1990, Fulbright Foundation, 1995-1996, Humboldt Transcoop, 2006-2009, French Ordre des Palmes Académique.