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Front Matter -- Contents /Richard Shusterman -- Acknowledgments /Richard Shusterman -- Introduction: Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics /Richard Shusterman -- Embodiment in Philosophy and Aesthetic Experience /Richard Shusterman -- Nietzsche on Embodiment: A Proto-somaesthetics? /Catherine F. Botha -- Experience and Aesthetics /Béla Bacsó -- Art as Experience: Gadamer and Pragmatist Aesthetics /Alexander Kremer -- Somaesthetic Approaches to the Fine Arts /Richard Shusterman -- Olafur Eliasson, Art as Embodied and Interdisciplinary Experience: In Dialogue with Else Marie Bukdahl /Else Marie Bukdahl -- Winckelmann’s Haptic Gaze: A Somaesthetic Interpretation /Yanping Gao -- Rethinking Aesthetics through Architecture? /Bálint Veres -- “The Co-Presence of Something Regular”: Wordsworth’s Aesthetics of Prosody /John Golden -- Singing, Listening, Proprioceiving: Some Reflections on Vocal Somaesthetics /Anne Tarvainen -- Somaesthetics in the Photographic Arts and the Art of Living /Richard Shusterman -- Spectral Absence and Bodily Presence: Performative Writings on Photography /Éva Antal -- Cosmetic Practices: The Intersection with Aesthetics and Medicine /Elisabetta Di Stefano -- Santayana on Embodiment, the Art of Living, and Sexual Aesthetics /Nóra Horváth -- Thinking through the Body of Maya: Somaesthetic Frames from Mira Nair’s Kamasutra /Vinod Balakrishnan and Swathi Elizabeth Kurian. This collection of essays explores the crucial connections between aesthetic experience and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, while further advancing inquiry in both. After the editor’s introduction and three articles examining philosophical accounts of embodiment and aesthetic experience in existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and pragmatism, the book’s nine remaining articles apply somaesthetic theory to the fine arts (including detailed studies of the body’s role in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, music, photography, and cinema) but also to diverse arts of living, considering such topics as cosmetics and sexual practice. These interdisciplinary, multicultural essays are written by a distinctively international group of experts, ranging from Asia (China and India) to Europe (Denmark, Finland, Hungary, and Italy) and the United States
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