Xavier Pavie

L’expérience esthétique et les enjeux du corps comme exercices spirituels contemporains, le cas Richard Shusterman

Appareil January 10, 2025 Xavier Pavie

Is the somaesthetics proposed by Richard Shusterman a spiritual exercise ? In ancient philosophy the body had a significant role as an understanding of the world and as a mean for spiritual exercises, but it was not without a certain number of ambiguities. Plato is carrying a certain responsibility. In the Phaedo, the body distracts us from reality and our quest for truth, but in The Republic,...