ESSAYS

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1. The Body in Performance
Dance Improvisation as Experimental Inquiry \\ The Power of Political Dance: Representation, Mobilization, and Context Apparatus \\ The Philosopher’s Costume: Richard Shusterman as The Man in Gold \\ Aesthetics, Politics and Remembrance in the Red Detachment of Women \\ Dancing for Human Rights: Engaging Labor Rights and Social Remembrance in Poor Mouth \\ Dance Philosophy and Somaesthetics \\ Ought I Make Political Dance? \\ Performing with Robots: Environment, Context, and Vulnerability Relations \\ Fitness for Function in Dance Aesthetics \\ Dance, Interactive Technology and the Device Paradigm \\

2. Somaesthetics and the Philosophy of Embodiment
\\ The Pragmatist Yogi: Ancient and Contemporary Yogic Somaesthetics \\ Martial Somaesthetics \\ Performative Somaesthetics: Principles and Scope \\ The Image of the Performing Body \\ The Violent Aesthetic: A Reconsideration of Transgressive Body Art \\ Philosophy of the Body as Introduction to Philosophy \\ On Being a Socratic Philosophy Instructor \\

3. Confucian Ethics and Aesthetics
\\ Thinking Through an Embodied Confucian Ethics of Persons \\ Confucius and Aristotle on the Goods of Friendship \\ Towards a Confucian Ethics of the Gift \\ Ritualized Exchange: A Consideration of Confucian Reciprocity \\ The Ethics of Confucian Artistry \\ Carrying the Jade Tablet: A Consideration of Confucian Artistry \\