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Title: Performing Live : Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art by Richard Shusterman ISBN: 0-8014-3753-9 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $43.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Pragmatically Original
Comment: This is a very exciting and well-written book. Shusterman develops his pragmatist perspective on the themes of aesthetic experience, urbanism, popular art and the new media. There are also illuminating analyses of multiculturalism, style, and body culture. The philosophically most original part of the book may be the two new studies that elaborate his ground-breaking theory of somaesthetics -- a body-mind discipline of theory and practice. But my favorite chapters were those on urban aesthetics, style, and genius that combine strong argument with evocatively lyrical, personal writing. Three of the book's 10 chapters are based on earlier work from his Pragmatist Aesthetics, but they help complement the brand new chapters to turn the book into a very sustained, compelling argument. It all flows together like a great CD.
Rating: 2
Summary: A disappointing book from a very bright philosopher.
Comment: Having read some of Richard Shusterman's previous books, I have to agree with the previous reviewer that Shusterman is one of the brightest, most interesting philosophers writing today. However, this book, PERFORMING LIVE, is a disappointment: it reads like a boring grocery list that could have been written by a mediocre grad. student. Where is Shusterman's usually sizzling, incisive intelligence? Hopefully, his next book will be better.
Rating: 3
Summary: Pragmatist Aesthetics Redux
Comment: Richard Shusterman is one of the most original, interesting, and relevant philosophers writing today. His recent book, PRACTICING PHILOSOPHY, was among the best published in the 1990s. Thus, PERFORMING LIVE comes as something of a disappointment. If you've read PRAGMATIST AESTHETICS in either its original or revised and updated form, you'll notice at least _three full chapters_ here that have been cut and pasted more or less verbatim. The points Shusterman makes in these chapters are eloquent and well-taken, but PERFORMING LIVE isn't that long a book, and one would have hoped Shusterman had something new to say. On a positive note, the new chapters _do_ rank with the best of Shusterman's previous work.
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Title: Pragmatist Aesthetics by Richard Shusterman ISBN: 0847697657 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pub. Date: 22 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life by Richard Shusterman ISBN: 0415913950 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Critique of Information (Theory, Culture and Society Series) by Scott M Lash ISBN: 0761952691 Publisher: SAGE Publications Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $41.95 |
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Title: The Language of New Media (Leonardo Books) by Lev Manovich ISBN: 0262632551 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 07 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Surface and Depth: Dialectics of Criticism and Culture by Richard Shusterman ISBN: 0801486831 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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