SOMAESTETİK FİLOZOFU SHUSTERMAN: Kendini Bilmenin Bir Yolu Olarak Somaestetik

Yıl 2013, Sayı: 58, 145 - 158, 15.12.2013

İbrahim Yıldırım

Öz

Richard Shusterman, günümüzde pragmatik estetiğin en önemli temsilcisi
olup, felsefe alanına yeni bir disiplin olarak ‘somaestetik’i sunar. Ona göre,
estetik tarihi boyunca bedenin estetik deneyimdeki rolü hep görmezden gelinmiştir.
Oysa tüm estetik algı ve beğenilerimizin temelinde bedenimiz bulunur.
Eğer “kendini tanıma” felsefenin bilişsel amaçlarından biri ise, bilginin bedensel
boyutu göz aradı edilemez. Ahlakî bir davranışta bulunurken gerçekleştirdiğimiz
hareketler beden tarafından yapıldığı için etik alanda da bedensel boyut inkâr
edilemez. Somaestetik, bedensel deneyimlerimizin disiplini yoluyla etkili bir iradenin
kazanılmasını sağlayarak, insan olarak imkânlarımızı tanımamıza ve bu
imkânlardan istediklerimizi gerçekleştirmemize yardımcı olur.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Estetik, Pragmatik Estetik, Somaestetik.

SHUSTERMAN PHILSOPHER OF SOMAESTHETICS: Somaesthetics As A Way Of Knowing Oneself

Öz

Richard Shusterman is the most important representative of pragmatic esthetic
today and presents “somaesthetics” to philosophic field as a new discipline.
According to him, the role of body in esthetic experience has always been ignored
throughout the history of esthetic. However, our body lies in the base of all our
esthetic perceptions and admirations. If “knowing oneself” is one of the cognitive
aims of philosophy, physical dimension of knowledge cannot be denied. Since
the activities we perform while committing an ethical action are carried out by the
body, the physical dimension of ethics cannot be denied. Somaesthetics helps us
to identify our possibilities as a human and to realize what we want through these
possibilities by ensuring an effective willpower is obtained through the discipline
of our physical experiences.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Aesthetics, Aesthetics of Pragmatic, Somaesthetics.

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