Venerdì 12 maggio 2023, ore15.00 -17.00
Plesso di Via G. Capponi 9, Firenze
Aula 16
Seminario Philosophy as a Way of Life -- On Camera: Richard Shusterman on Pragmatism and Somaesthetics
Prof. Richard Shusterman (Florida Atlantic University)
Abstract: Exhorting philosophy as a way of life, Socrates rejected the practice of philosophical writing as a corrupting distraction. But writing soon became philosophy’s privileged medium. To what extent can philosophy be reclaimed as an art of living, and in what ways can it take advantage of new media? Experimentation in performative visual media seems very appropriate for the philosophical field of aesthetics, and particularly for the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics that remains grounded in philosophy. In this presentation, I introduce some examples from recent work in the medium of video as part of my efforts to develop somaesthetics and revive the idea of the philosophical life, while expanding philosophy’s reach and public.
Bio: Richard Shusterman è "Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar" in the Humanities alla Florida Atlantic University e Direttore del Center for Body, Mind, and Culture. La sua Estetica pragmatista è stata pubblicata in quindici lingue, incluso l'italiano. Tra i suoi libri recenti, in inglese, dedicati alla somaestetica: Body Consciousness (in italiano Coscienza del corpo, Marinotti), Thinking through the Body e Ars Erotica (tutti per i tipi di Cambridge University Press). L'ultimo libro di Richard Shusterman in italiano è Esperienza estetica e arti popolari (Mimesis, 2023), per la cura di Stefano Marino.
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