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Polish Translation of a collection of essays on literary theory

New in print and digital formats! The book Poetics and Hermeneutics: Essays in the Philosophy of Literature is a collection of mostly early texts by the American pragmatist Richard Shusterman, previously unpublished in Polish—with the exception of two articles that appeared in "Przestrzenie Teorii" as a preview of the collection. It fills a significant gap in the Polish reception of Shusterman's philosophy, known primarily for his innovative work in pragmatist aesthetics and as the founder of somaesthetics. In the texts collected in Poetics and Hermeneutics, Shusterman considers the ontology of literary works, critical reasoning within aesthetic inquiry, the interpretation of works of art, and the nature and possibility of understanding, entering into a lively dialogue with the concepts of philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Roman Ingarden, Jacques Derrida, Hans Georg Gadamer, and Benedetto Croce. This collection of topics is complemented by essays on philosophy as a form of writing and autobiographical sources for the author's characteristic philosophical approach. Print and electronic versions in PDF format can be ordered by email: bookstore@amu.edu.pl or on the store link.



Hindi Translation of "Pragmatist Aesthetics"

Forthcoming 2026, Aakar Publications.

Somaestetica, Architettura e Città

2024, Bologna University Press

Consolidated as a philosophical discipline for over twenty years, Somaesthetics develops through the ameliorative principle of experience. In the context of redefining aesthetics in perceptive and proprioceptive terms, Richard Shusterman reworked pragmatist aesthetics in the 1990s through the soma, understood as a living body, which simultaneously perceives and creates. Going beyond an idea of ??aesthetics centered on appreciation, Shusterman focused above all on the applicative and practical aspect that puts artist and user on the same level. The dialogue with disciplines that lend themselves to applied feedback, such as those of architecture and urban planning, is thus encouraged. Taking into consideration the design, experiential and social aspects, Shusterman interprets architecture through the active participation of the soma and, consequently, the relationships?the social, cultural and performative with the city.

Esperienza Estetica e Arti Popolari

Prospettive Somaestetiche Sulla Teoria e La Pratica

2023, Mimesis Edizioni.

Richard Shusterman's thought today represents an important reference point within the philosophical debate, in general, and aesthetics, in particular. Starting from a philosophical-analytical background but opening early on to the stimuli offered by pragmatism and maintaining a dialogue with "continental" authors and traditions of thought as well, Shusterman has offered original and stimulating contributions on a wide variety of contemporary aesthetic practices, focusing on the reevaluation of aesthetic experience as a whole and, above all, on the recovery of the dimension of corporeality and pleasure. This has also proved to be extremely useful and fruitful from a philosophical point of view in order to liberate aesthetic inquiry from any schematic, merely dichotomous and abstract subdivision of the arts into "low" and "high," "popular" and "serious," and in order to elevate the bodily dimension as a whole, in its unique capacity to unite nature and culture. Of this and much more Shusterman's essays selected for this collection of his writings in Italian offer exemplary testimony.


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Hungarian Review (2025)

Polish Translation of "Aesthetic Experience and the Powers of Possession"

Biblioteka Elementów (2023)

Chinese Translation of "The Adventures of the Man in Gold"

金衣人历险记, (Anhui Education Publishing House, 2020)

Book Reviews

Translations of "Thinking Through the Body"

Polish Translation

Myslenie ciala: Eseje z zakresu somaestetyki

(Warsaw 2016)

Hungarian Translation

A Gondolkodo Test: Szomaesztetikai Esszek

(Hungarian Edition: Budapest, 2015)

Chinese Translation

现货 通过身体来思考：身体美学理查德·舒斯特曼北京大学出版社

(Peking University Press, 2020)



Review in Chinese

Translations of "Surface and Depth"

Chinese Translation

2014

Translations of "Somatic Style"

Korean translation of "Somatic Style" in Aesthetics of Style

(2013)

Stili Di Vita: Qualche Istruzione Per L'Uso

Milan: Mimesis Edizioni, 2012

Translations of "The Object of Literary Criticism"

L'Objet de la critique littéraire

Paris: Questions Théoriques, 2009.

Translations of "Body Consciousness"

Polish Translation

S?wiadomos?c? Cia?a: Dociekania Z Zakresu Somaestetyki

Trans. Sebastian Stankiewicz and Wojciech Ma?ecki. Ed. Krystyna Wilkoszewska. 2nd ed. Krako?w: Towarzystwo Autoro?w I Wydawco?w Prac Naukowych Universitas, 2016.

Italian Translation

Conscienza del Corpo: La Filosofia Come Arte di Vivere e la Somaesthetica

Trans. Salvadore Tedesco and Valeria Constanza D'Agata: Milano, Christian Marinotti Edizioni, (2013).

French Translation

Conscience du corps: Pour une soma-esthétique

Paris: l’éclat, 2007 (In French).

2nd?ed.: Paris: l’éclat, 2008

Korean Translation

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Trans. by Lee Hyijin. Seoul: Book Korea, 2010. (Korean trans. with a special preface for the Korean edition).


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Chinese Translation

身体意识与身体美学

Trans. Cheng Xiangzhan. Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2011. (Chinese trans. with a special preface for the Chinese edition).

Portuguese Translation

Consciência Corporal

S?o Paulo, Brazil: E Realizacoes, 2012 (Portuguese)

Review (2012)

Translations of "Performing Live"

Le Style a l'etat vif.Paris: Questions Theoriques, 2015.

French Translation

Leibliche Erfahrung in Kunst und Lebenstil

German Translation

Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2005. (In German with new introduction and three different chapters)

Beijing: Peking U P, 2007.

Chinese Translation

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Korean Translation

Seoul: Ehak Publishing Company, 2012.?

Translations of "Practicing Philosophy"

Japanese Translation

プラグマティズムと哲学の実践 [単行本], 世織書房

2012

Polish Translation

Praktyka Filozofii, Filozofia Praktyki

Krakow, Universitas, 2005. (In Polish with new preface)

Chinese Translation

Peking U P, 2002

(In Chinese with new preface)

French Translation

Vivre la philosophie

Paris: Klincksiek, 2001. (In French with new preface)

German Translation

Philosophie als Lebenspraxis

Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001. (In German with new preface and a revised chapter)

Book Review

Translations of "Pragmatist Aesthetics"

Russian Translation

Прагматическая эстетика: живая красота, переосмысление искусства

Trans. Marina Kukartseva et al.

Moscow: Kanon+ Publishers, 2012

Italian Translation

Estetica pragmatista

Aesthetica edizioni, Palermo, 2010.Translation by Teresa di Folco.
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Romanian Translation

Estetica Pragmatista

Poszony: Kalligram, 2003. (In Hungarian with new preface by the author and afterward by Jószef Kollár)

Slovakian Translation

Estetika Pragmatizmu

Bratislava: Kalligram, 2003. (In Slovakian with new preface by the author and afterward by Zdenka Kalnická)

Spanish Translation

Estética Pragmatista

Barcelona: Idea Books, 2002. (In Spanish with new preface.)

Chinese Translation

2nd ed.: Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2002.

(In Chinese with new preface by the author and introduction by Peng Feng)

Korean Translation

2nd ed.: Seoul: Yejun, 2002.

(In Korean with new preface.)

Korean Translation

2nd Korean Edition, Seoul: Book Korea Publishers, 2009

(Revised with a new preface.)

Japanese Translation

Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 1999.

(In Japanese with new preface by the author and introduction by Fuminori Akiba)

Polish Translation

2nd Polish Edition: Estetyka pragmatyczna: Zynw piekno i refleksja nad sztuka

Krakow: Wydanie, 2015

Polish Translation

Estetyka pragmatyczna: Zywe piekno i refleksja nad sztuka

Wroclaw: U of Wroclaw P, 1998. (In Polish with new preface by the author and introductions by Adam Chmielewski and Leszek Koczanowicz)

Portuguese Translation

Vivendo a Arte: O Pensamento Pragmatistist e a Estética Popular

Sao Paolo: Editora 34, 1998. (In Portuguese with new preface for Brazil and new appendix)

Finnish Translation

Taide, el?m? ja estetiika: Pragmatistinen filosofia ja estetiika

Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 1997. (In Finnish with new preface)

German Translation

Kunst Leben: die ?sthetik des Pragmatismus

Frankfurt: Fischer, 1994 (In German with new preface).

French Translation

L’art à l’état vif: la pensée pragmatiste et l’esthétique populaire

Paris: Minuit, 1991 (In French with new preface).

Other Works

Philosophy of Somaesthetics and Culture: Human Being, Movement, Worldmaking

(Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 2019)

情感与行动：实用主义之道, 商务印书馆. Act and Affect: Paths of Pragmatism (trans).

Gao Yanping. Shanghai: The Commercial Press,?(2018).
Review Essay by Yao Wen Fangchevron_right

A Study of Shusterman's New Pragmatic Aesthetics

Body Turning and Aesthetic Transformation: Richard Shusterman's Thoughts on Body Aesthetic

Szomaesztetika es az elet muveszete

Trans. by Kremer Sandor (Hungarian edition), Kiado: Jatep Press, 2015

Chemins de l'art. Transfigurations, du pragmatisme au zen

with Afterword by Arthur Danto. Rapha?l Cuir, trans. Paris and Brussels: Al Dante Aka - Cellule éditoriale de l'Académie royale des beaux arts de Bruxelles, 2013.

O stuze I zyciu. Od poetyki hip-hopu do filozofii somatycznej.

Wroclaw: Alta 2, 2007. (Collection of articles and interviews translated into Polish). With Wojciech Malecki.

La fin de l’expérience esthétique

Pau: Presse Universitaire de Pau, 1999. (In French)

La modernité en questions

Paris: Cerf, 1998. Eds. Shusterman, et al. (In French)

Sous l’interprétation

Paris: ?ditions de l’éclat, 1994. (In French)

Vor der Interpretation: Sprache und Erfahrung in Hermeneutik, Dekonstruktion und Pragmatismus

Vienna: Passagen, 1996.

(German translation of?Sous l’interprétation?with new preface).

Reviews?of?Vor der Interpretation:

In?Frankfurter Allegemeine (1996)

Der Tagesspiegel?(March 2, 1997)

Dtsch Z. Philos (1997)

Aesthetics: vol. 5 of Sources for the Study of Philosophy in High School.

Jerusalem: Ministry of Education, 1986. Eds. Shusterman, et al. (In Hebrew)

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