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Bodies in the Streets: The Somaesthetics of City Life, published in August 2019, is the second book in the series edited by Richard Shusterman “Studies in Somaesthetics. Embodied Perspectives in Philosophy, the Arts and the Human Sciences,” published by Brill Publishers. The first volume, entitled Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics (2018),1 represented a very interesting, although quite “classical,” contribution in somaesthetics. By this I mean it is a “classical” contribution to a “non-classical” and somehow “unconventional” (in a positive sense of these terms, of course) branch of contemporary aesthetics par excellence such as somaesthetics, about which Shusterman had written in Pragmatist Aesthetics (19921; 20002) that it is “best situated within an expanded discipline of aesthetics” capable of giving “more systematic attention to the body’s crucial roles in aesthetic perception and experience, including the aesthetic dimensions of body therapies, sports, martial arts, cosmetics, etc., that remain marginalized in academic aesthetic theory” (p. 283). Therefore, “to incorporate somaesthetics’ practical dimension, the field of aesthetics must also expand its notion of disciplinary attention to actual, hands-on training in specific body practices that aim at somaesthetic improvement,” and while “[i]nclusion of such body work may make aesthetics more difficult to teach or practice in the standard university classroom, ... it certainly [can] make the field more exciting and absorbing, as it comes to engage more of our embodied selves” (p. 283). With its 12 chapters articulated in 3 parts dedicated to “Embodiment in Philosophy and Aesthetic Experience,” “Somaesthetic Approaches to the Fine Arts” and “Somaesthetics in the Photographic Arts and the Art of Living,” Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics connected back to the question of aesthetic experience that has always played an important role in Shusterman’s thought – at least since Pragmatist Aesthetics and his seminal paper “The End of Aesthetic Experience” (1997). In that first volume, Shusterman expanded aesthetic experience in the direction of somaesthetic investigations of various aesthetic questions and topics, with connections to thinkers from the present and the past. Now, in comparison to the very interesting but, as I said, somewhat more “classical” first book in the series “Studies in Somaesthetics,” Bodies in the Streets: The Somaesthetics of City Life, represents a more original and stimulating work, offering a significant contribution in imposing

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