SOMAESTHETICS AND SOCIAL THEORY
SOMAESTHETICS AND SOCIAL THEORY

Summary/Abstract: After introducing the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics by outlining its various branches and its connections to central aims of philosophy and social theory, this paper then shows how somaesthetics can deal more specifically with problems of multicultural enmity and racial hostility that are not adequately solved by discursive arguments for the rationality of tolerance. Since these problems are rooted in the body’s visceral reactions, which most often go unnoticed, somaesthetic attention enables one to notice these visceral feelings and thus enables us to manage or transform them.

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