Symposium on Richard Shusterman’s "Philosophy and the Art of Writing"

In this Symposium we present to the readers of Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy a long and detailed discussion of Richard Shusterman's last monograph, Philosophy and the Art of Writing (Routledge, London & New York, 2022, 142 pages). The Symposium, edited by Stefano Marino and Elena Romagnoli, includes a short Introduction by the two editors, the papers of five expert scholars of philosophy (Valentina Antoniol, Anna Budziak, Marta Faustino, Marcello Ghilardi, Thomas Leddy) who have read Shusterman's book and have asked him specific questions on various passages of the book, and finally Shusterman's original replies in response to the different papers of all authors. The topics addressed in the Symposium include, among others, the influence of Foucault's aesthetics of existence on Shusterman's somaesthetics, Shusterman's views about the relation between Western and non-Western forms of philosophical thinking, the question of the relation between philosophy and literature, the role played by ideas of "the art of living" and "the art of writing" in the context of Shusterman's thought, the relation between everyday aesthetics and pragmatist aesthetics/somaesthetics.