Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman's Somaesthetics

Valentina Antoniol is Researcher of Political Philosophy at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. Her main research interests and research fields are political philosophy, political theory, contemporary continental philosophy, history of political thought and feminist philosophy. She is the author of Foucault et la guerre. partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt (2023). Stefano Marino is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna, Italy. His main research interests and research fields are philosophical hermeneutics, critical theory of society, neo-pragmatism and somaesthetics, philosophy of music, and aesthetics of fashion. He co-edited the book Pearl Jam and Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2021).

List of Contributors Introduction. Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman's Somaesthetics: Ethics, Politics, and the Art of Living, Valentina Antoniol (University of Bari) and Stefano Marino (University of Bologna) 1. Aesthetics of Existence: From Foucault to Stirner, via Baudelaire, Philippe Sabot (University of Lille, France) 2. The Body at the Limits of Subjectivity. For a Philosophy-Performance as Political Aesthetics Through the Thought of Michel Foucault, Arianna Sforzini (University Paris-Est Crteil, France) 3. Pleasure, Scandal, and the Body: Foucault on Somatic Askesis, Daniele Lorenzini (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 4. Leib, Krper, and the Body Politic, Martin Jay (UC Berkeley, USA) 5. Care of the Social Self as Embodied, Vincent M. Colapietro (University of Rhode Island and Pennsylvania State University, USA) 6. Somaesthetics and the Philosophical Life, Richard Shusterman (Florida Atlantic University, USA) 7. Somaesthetics, Foucauldian Aesthetics of Existence, and Living Ethically as White, Chris Voparil (Lynn University, USA) 8. Aphrodisia, Eros, Charis: Holistic Bodies and the Stylistic of Reciprocity, Barbara Formis (Sorbonne University, Paris 1, France) 9. The Body Must Be Defended: Somapower and the Womens Strike in Poland, Leszek Koczanowicz (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland) Bibliography Index