Abstract In this paper, I explore how John Dewey, through an application of his antiessentialist empirical naturalism, deconstructs the essentialist phenomenology of stasis as the dialectical development of preconceived notions constructed without any reference to aesthetic-mystical experience as it is lived. I endeavor to show that the only empirically justified phenomenological...
Schopenhauer on Sense Perception and Aesthetic Cognition Bart Vandenabeele (bio) Introduction In Schopenhauer’s view, the whole organic and inorganic world is ultimately governed by an insatiable, blind will. Life as a whole is purposeless: there is no ultimate goal or meaning, for the metaphysical will is only interested in manifesting itself in (or as) a myriad of phenomena, which we call the...
Reviewed by: Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics Eric C. Mullis Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics, by Richard Shusterman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 239 pp., $20.00 paperback. One aspect of Richard Shusterman’s work is indicative of a broad movement to develop a robust philosophy of embodiment. Thinkers from diverse...