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Culture and Value
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein’s Culture and Value gathers personal reflections that reveal the philosophical and spiritual dimensions behind his work, resonating far beyond academic philosophy.
The Interpretation of Cultures
Clifford Geertz
Geertz’s landmark work redefines culture as a web of meaning, transforming how we understand symbols, rituals, and human behavior across societies and disciplines.
The Rules of Art: Genesis and...
Pierre Bourdieu
Bourdieu dissects the literary field as a dynamic system of power, redefining art, authorship, and autonomy through sociological critique and historical analysis.
Feminist Theory: From Margin...
bell hooks
bell hooks critiques mainstream feminism and centers the voices of Black women and the marginalized, reshaping feminist thought into a transformative, inclusive political vision.
Studies in Somaesthetics
Richard Shusterman
This series aims to publish monographs and anthologies of new research in the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. The field can be briefly defined…
Strangers to Ourselves
Julia Kristeva
Kristeva explores foreignness as both a political and psychological condition, urging us to confront the stranger not only outside, but within ourselves.
Thinking through the Body
Richard Shusterman
This book provides a richly rewarding vision of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. Composed of fourteen wide-ranging…
Body Consciousness
Richard Shusterman
Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress, and a variety of personal and social discontents…
Foucault's Aesthetics of...
Valentina Antoniol & Stefano Marino
Bringing together Michel Foucault’s aesthetics of existence and Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics, this volume provides a critical comparison…
Somaesthetics and the...
Satoshi Higuchi
Higuchi, one of the pivotal scholars in introducing Shusterman’s somaesthetics to Japanese audiences in the early 2000s, provides insight into how this…
Somaesthetic Experience...
Allie Terry-Fritsch
Viewers in the Middle Ages and Renaissance were encouraged to forge connections between their physical and affective states…
A Somaesthetics of...
Falk Heinrich
This book develops an original theory of performative beauty. Philosophical aesthetics has largely neglected one’s own actions as a potential experience…
Embodying Pragmatism
Wojciech Malecki
Embodying Pragmatism is the first monograph in English devoted to Richard Shusterman, an internationally renowned philosopher and one of…
Extended [Textile] Soma...
Arife Dila Demir
Explores how interactive textiles and soma design transform chronic pain into awareness, acceptance, and new ways of embodied living.
