On the Interest in the Art of Loving: Richard Shusterman’s Ars Erotica

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  • Leonardo Distaso University of Naples Federico II

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.vi31.6454

Author Biography

Leonardo Distaso, University of Naples Federico II

Leonardo Distaso’s most recent research has had as reference authors such as Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse and Lukács, and the context of the Frankfurt School, in a reflection on modern art and aesthetics and their relations with society. Issues such as the relationship between art / life and art / society, as well as investigations on the different relationships between figurative arts and music, and between vision and listening, have involved a plexus of problems that start from the meaning of the Shoa and anti-Semitism for contemporary thought. The recent critical research on the figure of Richard Wagner fits into this context. Among the latest publications: Il veleno del commediante. Arte, utopia e antisemitismo in Richard Wagner (2017); Textura rerum. Parvenza apparenza appariscenza (2015); Estetica e differenza in Wittgenstein (2014); Musica per l'abisso. La via di Terezìn. Un'indagine storica ed estetica 1933-1945 (2014); Da Dioniso al Sinai. Saggi di filosofia della musica (2011); The Paradox of Existence. Philosophy and Aesthetics in the Young Schelling (2004).

References

Foucault, Michel, The History of Sexuality 1-3 [1976-1984]. New York: Vintage, 1980-1986.
Foucault, Michel, Histoire de la sexualité 4. Paris: Gallimard, 2018.
Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Judgment [1790]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1986).
Nietzsche, Friedrich, On the Genealogy of Morality [1887]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Shusterman, Richard, Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art. New York: Rowan & Littlefield, 2000.
Shusterman, Richard, Performing Live. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.
Shusterman, Richard, Body Consciousness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Shusterman, Richard (ed.), Bodies in the Streets: The Somaesthetics of City Life. Leiden: Brill 2019.
Shusterman, Richard, Ars Erotica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Foucault Studies No. 30

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Published

2021-12-12

How to Cite

Distaso, L. (2021). On the Interest in the Art of Loving: Richard Shusterman’s Ars Erotica . Foucault Studies, (31), 25–36. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.vi31.6454

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Number 31, December 2021

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Symposium: Ars Erotica

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