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Somaesthetics Texts by Richard Shusterman in English

Books

___. Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics. Cambridge: Cambridge U P,  2008.___. Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the End of Art. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2000.
___. Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Articles
___. “A Biological Aesthetics/Une esthétique bilogique” 02 Revue d’art contemporain 46 (Summer 2008): 45-48. Interviewed by Aude Launay.
___. “Aesthetic and Practical Interests and their Bodily Ground.” William James Society, 1.1. (2006): 12 pars. <http://williamjamesstudies.press.uiuc.edu/1.1/shusterman.html>.
___. “Asian Ars Erotica and the Question of Aesthetics.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65.1 (Winter 2007): 55-68.
___. “Body Consciousness and Performance: Somaesthetics East and West.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67:2 (2009) 133-145.
___. “Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Art of Living: Pragmatism and Somaesthetics.” Journal of Learning And Curriculum Development, Hiroshima 2 (2003): 47-53.
___. “Home Alone? Self and Other in Somaesthetics and Performing Live.” Journal of Aesthetic Education, 36.4 (2002): 102-115.
___. “L’utopie du corps.” Recherches en esthétique 11 (2005): 67-72.
___. “Pragmatism and Criticism: A Response to Three Critics of Pragmatist Aesthetics.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy,16.1 ( 2002): 26-38.
___. “Pragmatism and East Asian Thought” Metaphilosophy 35.1/2 (2004): 13-43.
___. “Self-Knowledge and Its Discontents.” Philosophy of Education, (2007): 25-37.
___. “The Silent, Limping Body of Philosophy.” The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty. Eds. T. Carman and M. Hansen. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 2005. 151-180.
___. “Somaesthetics: A Disciplinary Proposal.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 57 (1999): 299-313.
___. “Somaesthetics and Burke’s Sublime.” The British Journal of Aesthetics, 45.4 (2005): 323-341.
___. “Somaesthetics and C.S. Peirce.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 23:1 (2009): 8-27.
___. “Somaesthetics and Care of the Self: The Case of Foucalt.” The Monist, vol. 83, no. 4,

___. “Somaesthetics and Education: Exploring the Terrain” Knowing Bodies Moving Minds (2004): 51-60.

___. “Somaesthetics and Social Theory.” Human Affairs, 15.2 (2005): 105-115.

___. “Somaesthetics and the Body Media Issue.” Body and Society 3.3 (1997): 34-48.
___. “Somaesthetics and the Revival of Aesthetics.” Filozofski Vestnik, 28.2 (2007): 135-149.
___. “Somaesthetics and Self Cultivation in Philosophy as a Way of Life” Jahrbuch Fur Lebensphilosophie, (2007): 111- 123.
___. “Somaesthetics and The Second Sex: A Pragmatist Reading of a Feminist Classic.” Hypatia, 18.4(2003): 106-136.
___. “Somaesthetics and the Ends of Art.” End of Art—Endings in Art. Ed. Gerhard Seel. Basel: Schwabe, 2006. 142-163.
___. “Somaesthetics at the Limits” Nordic Journal of Aesthetics (2007).
___. “Soma Holiday: An Interview with Richard Shusterman” artUS, 21 (2008): 26-28.
___. “Teaching Philosophy: A Somaesthetic Approach.” Teaching Philosophy. Ed. Andrea Kenkman. New York, NY: Continuum Press, 2009: 57-68.
___. “Thinking Through the Body: Educating for the Humanities.” Journal of Aesthetic  Education, 40:1 (2006): 1-21.
___. “William James, Somatic Introspection, and Care of the Self.” Philosophical Forum, 36 (2005): 429-450.
___. “Wittgenstein on Bodily Feelings: Explanation and Melioration in Philosophy of Mind, Art, and Politics.” In The Grammar of Politics: Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy. Ed. Cressida Heyes. Ithaca: Cornell U P, 2003. 202-219.
___. “Wittgenstein’s Somaesthetics.” Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 219 (2002): 91-108.
___. “The Good Life, The Examined Life, and The Embodied Life” Human Affairs 18.2 (December 2008): 139-150

Somaesthetics Texts by Richard Shusterman in Other Languages

French

Books
___.Conscience du corps: Pour une soma-esthétique. Paris: l’éclat, 2007.
___.Sous l’interprétation. Paris: Éditions de l’éclat, 1994.
___. Vivre la philosophie. Paris: Klincksiek, 2001.Articles

Articles

___. “Intelligence du corps,” Le Monde (Des Livres), 12.
___."La soma-esthétique, le corps comme expérience et la question des médias." la fin de l' expérience esthétique. l' université de pau ( 1999): 61-90.

___. “Le corps sous les media.” Jusqu’où tolérer? Ed. Roger-Pol Droit. Paris: Le Monde Editions, 1996. 260-272.

___. “L’utopie du corps.” Recherches en esthétique 11 (2005): 67-72.

___. Roger-Pol Doit/Richard Shusterman, “Richard Shusterman, Philosophie Nomade.” Le Point 1839 (13 December 2007): 88-89.

German

Books
___. Leibliche Erfahrung in Kunst und Lebenstil. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2005.
___.Philosophie als Lebespraxis. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001.
___.Vor der Interpretation: Sprache und Erfahrung in Hermeneutik, Dekonstruktion und Pragmatismus. Vienna: Passagen, 1996.
Articles

___. “Soma und Medien” Sonderdruck (1998): 114-126.

___. “Somaesthetics and Self-Cultivation in Philosophy as a Way of Life.” Jahrbuch fuer Lebensphilosophie, Praxis der Philosophie III . Eds. U. Gahlings, D. Croome and R. J. Kozljanic. Muenchen: Albunea Verlag 2007. 111-123.

___. “Wittgensteins Somästhetik: Körperliche Gefühle in der Philosophie des Geistes, der Kunst und der Politik.” Dimensionen aëstheticsher Erfahrung. Eds. J. Küpper and Christoph Menke. Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp, 2003. 67-93.

___. “Der schweigende, hinkende Körper der Philosophie.” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 51 (2003): 1-20.

Polish

Books

Shusterman, Richard and Wojciech Malecki. O stuze I życiu. Od poetyki hip-hopu do filozofii somatycznej. Wroclaw: Alta 2, 2007. (Collection of articles and interviews translated into Polish).

Articles
___. “Somaestetyka”, Biuletyn Polskiego Towarzystwa Estetycznego, 7:1 (2005): 1-2.

___.“Somatoestetyka i Druga pleć Pragmatystyczne odczytanie arcydzieła feminizmu.” Teksty Drugie no 1/2 (2008): 173-205. Translated by Wojciech Małecki.

Chinese
___. “通过身体思考:人文学科的教育.” 学术月刊 (Academic Monthly) October, (2007): 5-14. (Translation of Thinking Through the Body)

Japanese
___. “Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Art of Living: Pragmatism and Somaesthetics.” Journal of Learning and Curriculum Development, Hiroshima 2 (2003): 47-53.

___. “Somaesthetics and the Body Media Issue” (2003): 57-75.

Portuguese

___. “Pensar Através do corpo, educar para as humanidades: um apelo para a soma-estética.” Marte 3 ( 2008): 98-117. ( Portuguese translation of “Thinking Through the Body”)

Somaesthetics Texts by Other Authors

English

Abrams, Jerold J. “Aesthetics and Ethics: Santayana, Nietzsche, and Shusterman.” The Modern Schoolman, 81 (2004): 233-266.

___. “Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning and Cosmopolitanism: Foucault and Rorty on the Art of Living.” Philosophy Today, Summer, (2002): 185-192.

___. “Pragmatism, Artificial Intelligence, and Posthuman Bioethics: Shusterman, Rorty, and Foucault.” Human Studies, 27 (2004): 241-258.

Alston, Kal. “The Locus of the Self.” Philosophy of Education, (2007): 38-41.

Anderson, Brian. “Entheogenic Visions: The Sacred Union of Word & Image.” Penn Humanities Forum On Word and Image, (2005-2006): 1-33.

Arnold, Peter J. “Somaesthetics, Education, and the Art of Dance.” Journal of Aesthetic Education, 39.1 (2005): 48-64.

Barber, Daniel. "Somaesthetic Awareness and Artistic Practice: A review essay". International Journal of Education & the Arts, 9 (Review 1). (2008): http://www.ijea.org/v9r1/.

Biesta, Gert. “Who is There? Finding the Other in the Self” Philosophy of Education, (2007): 42-45.

Carducci, Vince. “Are You Experienced?” Metro Times Detroit, (12/25/2002).

Cunningham, Craig A. 2008. “Book Review: Richard Shusterman, Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics,” Education and Culture 24 (2): 54-59.

Gayman, Cynthia. “ Book Review of Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 22.3 ( 2008) 225-227.

Grassbaugh-Fory, Joan. “Somaesthetics and Philosophical Self-Cultivation: An Intersection of Philosophy and Sport.” Acta Universitatis Palackinae Olomucensis Gymnica, 36.2 (2006): 25-28.

Guerra, Gustavo. “Practicing Pragmatism: Richard Shusterman’s Unbound Philosophy.” Journal of Aesthetic Education, 36.4 (2002): 70-83.

Haskins, Casey. “Enlivened Bodies, Authenticity, and Romanticism.” Journal of Aesthetic Education, 36.4 (2002): 84-101.

Higgins, Kathleen Marie. “Living and Feeling at Home: Shusterman’s Performing Live” Journal of Aesthetic Education, 36.4 (2002): 84-92.

Higuchi, Satoshi. “Eastern Mind-Body Theory and Somaesthetics.” Concepts of Aesthetic Education: Japanese and European Perspectives. Eds. Yasuo Imai and Christoph Wulf.   München/Berlin, 2007, 88-96.

Jay, Martin. “Somaesthetics and Democracy: Dewey and Contemporary Body Art.” Journal of Aesthetic Education, 36.4 (2002): 55-68.

___. Reprinted in Martin Jay, Refractions of Violence (New York: Routledge, 2003).

Johnston, James S. “Reflections on Richard Shusterman’s Dewey,” Journal of Aesthetic Education, 38.4 Winter (2004): 99-108.

Kallio, Titti. “Why we choose the More Attractive Looking Objects Somatic Markers and Somaesthetics In User Experience” DPPI 03 (2003): 142-143.

Leddy, Thomas. “Shusterman’s Pragmatist Aesthetics.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy,16.1 (2002): 10-16.

Loland, Nina Waaler “The Art of Concealment in a Culture of Display: Aerobicizing Women’s and Men’s Experience and Use of their Own Bodies.” Sociology of Sport Journal 17 (2000): 111 129.

Mullis, Eric C. “Performative Somaesthetics: Principles and Scope.” Journal of Aesthetic Education, 40.4 (2006): 104-117.

___. “The Violent Aesthetic: A Reconsideration of Transgressive Body Art.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 20.2 (2006): 85-92.

Parthemore, Joel. “ Review of Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics.” Metapsychology Online Reviews 12.40 ( 2008) http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4502

Protevi, John. “Review of Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics.” Journal for the British Society for Phenomenology 40.2 ( May 2009): 228-230

Shalin, Dmitri N. “Signing in the Flesh: Notes on Pragmatist Hermeneutics.” Sociological Theory 25.3 (September 2007): 193-224.

Soulez, Antonia. “Practice, Theory, Pleasure, and the Problems of Form and Resistance: Shusterman’s Pragmatist Aesthetics." The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 16:.1 ( 2002): 1-9.

Stroud, Scott R. “Orientational Meliorism in Dewey and Dogen.” Transactions of the Charles Pierce Society, 43.1 (2007): 185-215.

Taylor, Paul C. “The Two-Dewey Thesis Continued: Shusterman’s Pragmatist Aesthetics.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy,16.1 ( 2002): 17-25.

Turner, Bryan. “ Somaesthetics and the Critique of Cartesian Dualism.” Body & Society, 14.3 (2008): 129-133

French

Bourmeau, Sylvain. “Le Corps au cœur.” Les inrockuptibles, 629 (18 December, 2007).

Cerf, Juliette. “Grand Corps Vivant.” Les philosophes, (2008): 74-75.

Formis, Barbara. “Review of Conscience du Corps.” Art Press, 344 (December 2007), 66.

Zerbib, David “Les effets secondaires d’une philosophie douce.” Le Monde (Des Livres), (30 November,2007), 12.

German

Salaverría, Heidí. “Shusterman: Somästhetische Kohärenz des Selbst.” Spielräume des Selbst, Akademie Verlag (2007), 206-225.

Malecki, Wojciech. “Von nicht-diskursiverEfharung Zur Somästhetik: Richars Shusterman über Dewey und Rorty.” Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie 56 ( 2008), 677-690.

Polish

Budziak, Anna. “Antyesencjalizm nietekstowy. O filozofii Richarda Shustermana” Er(r)go (2007): 9-23.

Dagmara, Jaszewska. “Granice ponowoczesnej esteyzzacji etyki. Uwagi o koncepcjach R. Shustermana i W. Welscha.” Wizje i re-wizje (2008): 827-839.

Malecki, Wojciech. “Richard Shusterman vs. uniwersalizm hermeneutyczny” Er(r)go (2007): 47-57.

___. “O praktycznych aspektach estetyki Richarda Shustermana- szutka popularna i somatoestetyka.” Wizje i re-wizje (2008): 813-826.

Mitek-Dziemba, Alina. “Estetycznosc rozkowana. O probach demokratyzacji estetyki.” Wizje i re-wizje (2008): 799-812.

Chinese

“Somaesthetics: Progress and Issues ―A Dialogue and Argument between American and Chinese Scholars”, Academic Monthly, No.8, 2007, Vol. 37, pp. 21-28

Japanese

Akiba, Fuminori. <醜>と<排除>の感性論-否定美の力学に関する基盤研究(“On Defending Procedures of Somaesthetics and Aesthetics of Senses as Aesthetics of Ugliness”). Bunri Usami (ed.). Reports of Grants-in-Aids for Scientific Research Project No. 17202004. (2007).

Higuchi, Satoshi “A Significance and Capability of “Somaesthetics” from the Viewpoint of Learning Theory – A Commentary on R. Shusterman’s Article –”

___. “Shintai kanseiron to wa nanika (What is somaesthetics?)” and “Jissenteki shintai kanseiron no kyoikuteki kachi (Educational values of practical somaesthetics).” Shintai Kyoiku no Shiso (Thoughts of Body Education). Japan, 2005. 149-163.