Richard Shusterman has the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities and is Director of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture at the College of Arts and Letters of Atlantic University en Floride. Il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages parmi lesquels Body Consciousness, Thinking through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics, The Adventures of the Man in Gold/Les Aventures de l’homme en or, L’art à l’état vif.

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Philosophy and the Art of Living: From Pragmatism to Somaesthetics

The idea of philosophy as an art of living finds powerful expression in the pragmatist tradition from Emerson and Thoreau through James and Dewey to contemporary neopragmatism. Because the soma (the sentient, purposive body) is the necessary medium through which we live, a philosophical art of living implies critical, disciplined somaesthetic efforts in theory and in practice. Tonight’s presentation will make that argument while showing how this can lead a philosopher into somaesthetics adventures that embody both philosophy and art à l’état vif.

Conférence, 20 min

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