Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. I Cognition, Interpretation, and Ontology
7. Chapter One. Beneath Interpretation 27
8. Chapter Two. Experience 47
9. Chapter Three. Organic Unity 67
10. Chapter Four. Affective Cognition 89
11. II Ethics and Politics
12. Chapter Five. Postmodern Ethics and the Art of Living 111
13. Chapter Six. Self-Knowledge and Its Discontents 137
14. Chapter Seven. Dialectics of Multiculturalism 155
15. Chapter Eight 173
16. III Aesthetics
17. Chapter Nine. The End of Aesthetic Experience 195
18. Chapter Ten. Art as Dramatization 215
19. Chapter Eleven. Entertainment 229
20. Chapter Twelve. Art and Religion 247
21. IV Somaesthetics
22. Chapter Thirteen. Soma and Media 267
23. Chapter Fourteen. Thinking through the Body, Educating for the Humanities 285
24. Chapter Fifteen. Muscle Memory and the Somaesthetic Pathologies of Everyday Life 303
25. Chapter Sixteen. Somaesthetics and Politics 323
26. Notes 341
27. Books by Richard Shusterman 393
28. Books about Richard Shusterman 399
29. Films about Richard Shusterman 401
30. Index 403