ESSAYS

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1. The Body in Performance

How to Dance, Robot? \\ 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

Reconstruction in Dance Somaesthetics \\ 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 \\