Bodies in the streets : the somaesthetics of city life /

Bodies in the streets : the somaesthetics of city life /

Cities are defined by their complex network of busy streets and the multitudes of people that animate them through physical presence and bodily actions that often differ dramatically: elegant window-shoppers and homeless beggars, protesting crowds and patrolling police. As bodies shape city life, so...

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Other Authors: Shusterman, Richard (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Series: Studies in Somaesthetics; volume02.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390898.

Subjects:

City and town life.
Streetscapes (Urban design)
Aesthetics.

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Call Number: HT151

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page /
  • Richard Shusterman
  • Illustrations /
  • Richard Shusterman
  • Contributors /
  • Richard Shusterman
  • Bodies in the Streets and the Somaesthetics of City Life /
  • Richard Shusterman
  • The Soma, the City, and the Weather /
  • Richard Shusterman
  • Bodies in the Streets: The Soma, the City, and the Art of Living /
  • Richard Shusterman
  • The Weather-Worlds of Urban Bodies /
  • Mădălina Diaconu
  • White on Black: Snow in the City, Skiing in Copenhagen /
  • Henrik Reeh
  • Festival, Revolution, and Death /
  • Richard Shusterman
  • Body Politics: Revolt and City Celebration /
  • Matthew Crippen
  • Bodies in the Streets of Eastern Europe: Rhetorical Space and the Somaesthetics of Revolution /
  • Noemi Marin
  • From Dancing to Dying in the Streets: Somaesthetics of the Cuban Revolution in Memories of Underdevelopment and Juan of the Dead /
  • Marilyn G. Miller
  • Performances of Resistance, Gender, and Crime /
  • Richard Shusterman
  • "Street" is Feminine in Italian: Feminine Bodies and Street Spaces /
  • Ilaria Serra
  • Bodies in Alliance and New Sites of Resistance: Performing the Political in Neoliberal Public Spaces /
  • Federica Castelli
  • East End Prostitution and the Fear of Contagion: On Body Consciousness of the Ripper Case /
  • Chung-jen Chen
  • Towards a Somaesthetic Conception of Culture in Iran: Somaesthetic Performance as Cultural Praxis in Tehran /
  • Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
  • Bodies in the Streets of Literature and Art /
  • Richard Shusterman
  • "Terrae Incognitae": The Somaesthetics of Thomas De Quincey's Psychogeography /
  • Evy Varsamopoulou
  • The Empty Spaces You Run Into: The City as Character and Background in William S. Burroughs's Junky, Queer, and Naked Lunch /
  • Robert W. Jones
  • The Somaesthetic Sublime: Varanasi in Modern and Contemporary Indian Art /
  • Pradeep A. Dhillon
  • Back Matter
  • Name Index /
  • Richard Shusterman.