Welcome

Welcome to the website of Richard Shusterman, Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and English, and Director of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture at Florida Atlantic University. This website serves as a mirror to his Humanities Chair website. 
 

Email him at: shuster1@fau.edu

View his CV here.

 

Current News

  • There will be a screening of a new film  The Man in Gold  (director Pawel Paweł Kuczyński) and a discussion of Dr. Shusterman’s work in philosophy and performance art at a Body Show conference (11/3-5) at the Municipal Cultural Center of Osztyn, Poland. For details click here.
  • Dr. Shusterman will give a lecture at the International Research Center for Aesthetics and Art Theory entitled Philosophy as a Way of Life on Camera on October 17, 2023 in Rome. Click here for more information.
  • Dr. Shusterman will give the invited inaugural lecture at the annual Polish Psychiatry Conference, held this year in Wroclaw. His lecture as an interdisciplinary guest will be on October 13th. For more information (in Polish), click here.
  • Dr. Shusterman will give a keynote address at The First European Somaesthetics Forum in Krakow, Poland on October 11th, 2023. For more information click here.
  • Dr. Shusterman will have a dialogue with the artist Stelarc on October 10th at Krakow Academy of Fine Arts’ Center for Somaesthetics and the Arts. For more information click here.
  • Dr. Shusterman will be teaching at a Ph.D. summer school on “Aesthetic Experience and the Aesthetics of Slowness” for the University of Aalborg in Northern Denmark on August 13th-August 17th. Click here for more information.
  • Dr. Shusterman will be a keynote speaker at the 22nd International Congress of Aesthetics on July 24-28, 2023 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil . The conference title is Contemporary Aesthetics: Dialogues through Art, Culture and Media. For details click here.
  • Dr. Shusterman will lecture and present the documentary film about his work at an event entitled “Art and Philosophy as a Way of Life” on May 22, 2023 in Tel Aviv at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts. For more details (in Hebrew) click here.
  • Dr. Shusterman will give a lecture on May 17, 2023 at the University of Naples, entitled “Soma as and in Space: Public and Private.” Click here for the poster.

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Books by Richard Shusterman

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About

Richard Shusterman is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. His books include Pragmatist Aesthetics (published in fifteen languages) as well as Body Consciousness (2008) and Thinking through the Body (2012). Shusterman has directed two projects for UNESCO and has been awarded honorary doctorates from universities in Denmark and Hungary. For his pioneering work in philosophy and somaesthetics the French government awarded him as Chevalier des Palmes Académiques.

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