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Somaesthetics and Chinese Philosophy: Between Unity and Pragmatist Pluralism |
Richard Shusterman() |
Department of Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 33431-0991, USA |
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Abstract Responding to three articles in a symposium dedicated to my research in somaesthetics, this paper explores a variety of themes connecting my theories with classical Chinese philosophy. The symposium topics discussed here range from the ontology of body-mind and world to the ethics of somaesthetic self-cultivation, and then to the somaesthetic meanings of our practices of erotics and of eating. The paper shows how the pragmatist orientation of somaesthetics reconciles values of unity with those of difference and how key ideas of somaesthetics intersect, in different ways, with both Confucian and Daoist thought.
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Keywords
somaesthetics
soma
unity
difference
pragmatism
pluralism
self-cultivation
erotics
food
Confucianism
Daoism
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Issue Date: 19 June 2015
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