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Performative Beauty: A Pragmatist and Somaesthetic Account book cover

1st Edition

Performative Beauty A Pragmatist and Somaesthetic Account

By Falk Heinrich Copyright 2026
112 Pages
by Routledge

This book develops an original theory of performative beauty by reconsidering and reworking Deweyan pragmatic aesthetics through the lens of somaesthetics, contemporary embodiment theories, and philosophies of play. While philosophical aesthetics has traditionally focused on beauty as a property of external objects, this book explores beauty as an enacted experience that emerges through our own... Read more

1. Introduction 1.1 Beautiful Experiences of Dancing  1.2 Some Premises Regarding the Beautiful 2. Pragmatist Aesthetics and Beauty 2.1 The Missing Pragmatist and Somaesthetic Notion of Beauty 2.2 Obstacles for a Notion of Performative Beauty 2.3 Somaesthetics as a Framework of Investigation 2.4 Somaesthetic Awareness 3. Unity 3.1 Unity and Immediacy 3.2 Practical Aspects of Unity 3.3 Intellectual Aspects of Unity 3.4 Emotional Aspect of Unity 3.5 Aesthetic Presence 4. Objectivisation 5. Transaction 6. Playfulness 7. Consummation 8. Enchantments 

Biography

Falk Heinrich is a professor of participatory aesthetics and artistic research at Aalborg University, Denmark. Before joining academia, he worked as a theatre actor, director, and installation artist. He studied dramaturgy and wrote his PhD on interactive digital installation art. He is the author of A Somaesthetics of Performative Beauty: Tangoing Desire and Nostalgia (Routledge, 2023), Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture (Routledge, 2014), and the editor of The Journal of Somaesthetics.

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