Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art
Second Edition

By Richard Shusterman

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  Cloth 0-8476-9764-9 / 978-0-8476-9764-9
  2000 272pp

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  Paper 0-8476-9765-7 / 978-0-8476-9765-6
  2000 368pp
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"The first edition was a fine book. The additional chapter in this second edition expands the account of the aesthetic way of life. Shusterman's defense of popular culture as art is convincing, thorough, and welcome."— CONTEMPORARY PRAGMATISM
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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 progressive agenda. The second edition contains an introduction where Shusterman responds to his critics, and it concludes with an added chapter that formulates his novel notion of somaesthetics.

About the Author
Richard Shusterman is Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University.

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