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Somaesthetics and the Philosophy of Culture: Projects in Japan book cover

1st Edition

Somaesthetics and the Philosophy of Culture Projects in Japan

By Satoshi Higuchi Copyright 2021
156 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

156 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

156 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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“I regard Higuchi’s book as particularly valuable because it highlights dimensions of somaesthetics that have not been sufficiently explored. I refer not only to the various traditional Japanese somatic disciplines whose somaesthetics aspects Higuchi reveals, but also to central topics far beyond Japanese culture.” -Foreword by Richard Shusterman Higuchi, one of the pivotal scholars in... Read more

Foreward (Richard Shusterman)

Preface

Part I Innovation of Aesthetics

1. Aesthetics of Sport: Its Framework

2. The Somaesthetic Experience of the Sports Performer

3. Sport and Art: Innovation of the Concept of Art

Part II Significance of Practice

4. Bodily Knowing

5. Eastern Body Theory and Somaesthetics

Part III Meliorism or Educational Implications

6. Somaesthetics and Learning

7. A Critical Investigation on the Education in Meliorism (by Jiyun Bae)

8.The Body Facing the Violence in Education: Critical Options from Somaesthetics (by Taiki Matsuda)

9. Learning Culture through Language (by Shoko Nagata)

10. The Meaning of Language in Education (with Yayoi Sutani)

Biography

Satoshi Higuchi is Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hiroshima University, Japan.

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