Prof. Richard Shusterman: 'An American in Paris: Personal Perspectives on Pragmatism’s Recent French Reception’

Dr. Richard Shusterman (Florida State University)

Professor Richard Shusterman (Dorothy F Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, Florida Atlantic University) will give a paper at the department of Philosophy of the University of Warwick on Tuesday 7th of January 2014, from 5:30 to 7:30, in room S 0.11 (social studies building).

The title of Prof. Shusterman’s paper is:

‘An American in Paris: Personal Perspectives on Pragmatism’s Recent French Reception’. It will be followed by a Q&A session.

Professor Shusterman plans to talk about his work’s reception in French philosophical and sociological circles and compare it in some ways to Rorty’s. He will also use some unpublished material of his first encounter with Pierre Bourdieu.

Richard Shusterman is an American pragmatist philosopher, currently the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. He is internationally known for his contributions to philosophical aesthetics and the emerging field of somaesthetics.
His last book, entitled Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008) was translated into French, Polish, Chinese, Portuguese, and Korean.