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  • The Critical Shusterman

    by Richard Shusterman ...
    Series series SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought
    Collecting sixteen key texts on a broad range of key philosophical topics enables readers to perceive the scope of Shusterman's philosophy and appreciate its systematic aspects.Richard Shusterman is one of today's foremost philosophers. His influential and widely translated work is distinctive for its originality and its integration of multiple philosophical perspectives (analytic philosophy, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Ars Erotica

    Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love

    by Richard Shusterman ...
    The term ars erotica refers to the styles and techniques of lovemaking with the honorific title of art. But in what sense are these practices artistic and how do they contribute to the aesthetics and ethics of self-cultivation in the art of living? In this book, Richard Shusterman offers a critical, comparative analysis of the erotic theories proposed by the most influential premodern cultural ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Practicing Philosophy

    Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life

    by Richard Shusterman ...
    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. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Philosophy and the Art of Writing

    by Richard Shusterman ...
    Series series New Literary Theory
    Philosophy and literature enjoy a close, complex relationship. Elucidating the connections between these two fields, this book examines the ways philosophy deploys literary means to advance its practice, particularly as a way of life that extends beyond literary forms and words into physical deeds, nonlinguistic expression, and subjective moods and feelings.Exploring thinkers from Socrates and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Philosophical I

    Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy

    by Nicholas Rescher, Sandra Harding, Douglas Kellner, Nancey Murphy, Joseph Margolis, Richard Shusterman, Bat-Ami Bar On, John J. Stuhr, Thomas E. Wartenberg, Linda Martín Alcoff, Lorraine Code, John Lachs, Paul C. Taylor, Charles W. Mills, Nancy Tuana ...
    Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers. Candid and philosophically insightful, these personal narratives critically call into question the belief that philosophy should be kept separate from the personal experience of philosophers. Each contributor traces the ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Pragmatist Aesthetics

    Living Beauty, Rethinking Art

    by Richard Shusterman ...
    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 ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Thinking through the Body

    Essays in Somaesthetics

    by Richard Shusterman ...
    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 ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Aesthetic Experience

    Edited by Richard Shusterman, Adele Tomlin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    In this volume, a team of internationally respected contributors theorize the concept of aesthetic experience and its value. Exposing and expanding our restricted cultural and intellectual presuppositions of what constitutes aesthetic experience, the book aims to re-explore and affirm the place of aesthetic experience--in its evaluative, phenomenological and transformational sense--not only in ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... Read more

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  • Giving an Account of Oneself

    Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author

    by Judith Butler ...
    What does it mean to lead a moral life?In their first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice—one responsive to the need for critical autonomy yet grounded in the opacity of the human subject.Butler takes as their starting point one’s ability to answer the questions “What have I done?” and “What ought I to do?” They show that these ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Kierkegaard's Romantic Legacy: Two Theories of the Self

    Two Theories of the Self

    by Anoop Gupta ...
    Series series Philosophica
    In Kierkegaard's Romantic Legacy, Anoop Gupta develops an original theory of the self based on Kierkegaard's writings. Gupta proceeds by historical exegesis and considers several important ways of thinking about self outside of the natural sciences. His study moves theories of the self from theology toward sociology, from a God-relationship to a social one, and illustrates how a loss in ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • On Being Authentic

    by Charles Guignon ...
    'To thine own self be true.' From Polonius's words in Hamlet right up to Oprah, we are constantly urged to look within. Why is being authentic the ultimate aim in life for so many people, and why does it mean looking inside rather than out? Is it about finding the 'real' me, or something greater than me, even God? And should we welcome what we find?Thought-provoking and with an astonishing range ... Read more

    $39.99 USD