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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...a robust and wide-ranging work... -- Ethics
...a wide-ranging invitation to rethink philosophy and philosophical aesthetics... -- Practicing Philosophy is about bringing the love of wisdom to bear on everyday life...Academic philosophy can use more of this kind of breadth
While no hemlock cocktail is being prepared for Shusterman, he is scandalizing his fellow philosophers no less than his ancient counterpart did . . . philosophy at its best is both inspiring, well-thought-out ideas and the exemplification of those ideas in a life well-lived. Richard Shusterman is trying to give us such a philosophy. -- The Philadelphia Inquirer
Many years ago, William James and John Dewey warned us about the dangers of the professionalization and narrowing of philosophy as a discipline. Richard Shusterman, working in the best of the pragmatic tradition, has taken this warning to heart. He strongly advocates the need to practice one's philosophy, to revive the almost forgotten tradition of living a philosophical life-- a tradition that dates back to Socrates. With verve and perceptive clarity, he ranges over the topics of aesthetics, liberalism, democracy, somatic experience, rap, and Jewish identity. The unifying theme in these diverse explorations is a passionate concern with living a genuinely philosophical life in today's complex and fragmented world. -- Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research
Richard Shusterman exemplifies the current renaissance in American pragmatism. His new essays are characteristically astute and wide-ranging, exploring fields as different as democratic theory and hip-hop aesthetics. Above all, Shusterman elaborates a new understanding of the philosophical life, revealing the tacit poetry of the personal in thinkers from Wittgenstein to Rorty. -- James Miller, New School for Social Research
...a wide-ranging invitation to rethink philosophy and philosophical aesthetics...Practicing Philosophy is about bringing the love of wisdom to bear oneveryday life...Academic philosophy can use more of this kind of breadth. -- The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
...a wide-ranging invitation to rethink philosophy and philosophical aesthetics... -- Practicing Philosophy is about bringing the love of wisdom to bear on everyday life...Academic philosophy can use more of this kind of breadth
While no hemlock cocktail is being prepared for Shusterman, he is scandalizing his fellow philosophers no less than his ancient counterpart did . . . philosophy at its best is both inspiring, well-thought-out ideas and the exemplification of those ideas in a life well-lived. Richard Shusterman is trying to give us such a philosophy. -- The Philadelphia Inquirer
Many years ago, William James and John Dewey warned us about the dangers of the professionalization and narrowing of philosophy as a discipline. Richard Shusterman, working in the best of the pragmatic tradition, has taken this warning to heart. He strongly advocates the need to practice one's philosophy, to revive the almost forgotten tradition of living a philosophical life-- a tradition that dates back to Socrates. With verve and perceptive clarity, he ranges over the topics of aesthetics, liberalism, democracy, somatic experience, rap, and Jewish identity. The unifying theme in these diverse explorations is a passionate concern with living a genuinely philosophical life in today's complex and fragmented world. -- Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research
Richard Shusterman exemplifies the current renaissance in American pragmatism. His new essays are characteristically astute and wide-ranging, exploring fields as different as democratic theory and hip-hop aesthetics. Above all, Shusterman elaborates a new understanding of the philosophical life, revealing the tacit poetry of the personal in thinkers from Wittgenstein to Rorty. -- James Miller, New School for Social Research
...a wide-ranging invitation to rethink philosophy and philosophical aesthetics...Practicing Philosophy is about bringing the love of wisdom to bear oneveryday life...Academic philosophy can use more of this kind of breadth. -- The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
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Richard Shusterman is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and Directeur de Programmes at the College International de Philosophie, Paris. His books include T. S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism (1988), Analytic Aesthetics (1989), Sous l'interpretation (1994), and the much acclaimed and widely translated Pragmatist Aesthetics (1992).
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Throughout the Reaganite eighties and into the post-Soviet nineties, Richard Rorty has been using pragmatism to praise and defend the virtues of contemporary American democracy and to advocate a political philosophy which he has dubbed "postmodern bourgeois liberalism." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Throughout the Reaganite eighties and into the post-Soviet nineties, Richard Rorty has been using pragmatism to praise and defend the virtues of contemporary American democracy and to advocate a political philosophy which he has dubbed "postmodern bourgeois liberalism." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nondiscursive somatic experience, philosophical living, judicious vacillation, nondiscursive experience, pragmatist aesthetics, knowledge rap, somatic aesthetics, nonlinguistic experience, sophical life, private perfection, philosophical lives, aesthetic living, radical originality, practicing philosophy, aesthetic model, aesthetic turn, immediate quality, aesthetic life, aesthetic justification, communicative reason Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Experience and Nature by John Dewey on 6 pages
- Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art by Richard Shusterman on 5 pages
- Art as Experience by John Dewey in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- John Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism by Steven Rockefeller in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Performing Live : Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art by Richard Shusterman on 8 pages
- The Range of Pragmatism and the Limits of Philosophy (Metaphilosophy) by Richard Shusterman on 7 pages
- Philosophy Practice: An Alternative to Counseling and Psychotherapy by Shlomit C. Schuster on 5 pages
- The Grammar of Politics: Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy by Cressida J. Heyes on 4 pages
- Richard Rorty: Critical Dialogues by Matthew Festenstein on 4 pages
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