Philosophy,writing, and liberation |
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Authors: | Richard Shusterman |
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Affiliation: | Departments of Philosophy and English and Center for Body, Mind, and Culture, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA |
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Abstract: | In responding to the three creative interpretive discussions in the symposium on my book Philosophy and the Art of Writing, this paper explores the different styles of philosophical discourse and their role in the practice of philosophy as a way of life that extends beyond the discursive and that combines self-cultivation with care for others in the ethical-aesthetic pursuit of living beauty. In advocating this aesthetic model of philosophical life over a purely therapeutic model, I suggest how the former can incorporate the latter's concerns for spiritual health and liberation. In developing my response to the symposiasts while elaborating on the themes of my book, I consider issues of ineffability, creative performance, embodiment, truth, heroism, vulnerability, possession, art, spirituality, love, and liberation. |
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Keywords: | art beauty gesture liberation love Man in Gold performance philosophical life somaesthetics writing Zen |
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