理查德·舒斯特曼
理查德·舒斯特曼
理查德·舒斯特曼,1948年出生,猶太裔美國人,世界著名美學家、人文學者。
理查德·舒斯特曼在耶路撒冷希伯來大學獲得哲學與英語的學士學位,哲學碩士學位。之後以色列軍中任公職三年。其後,他在牛津大學的聖約翰學院獲得哲學博士學位。1998至2004年,舒斯特曼任天普大學哲學系主任,2004年接掌佛羅里達亞特蘭大大學Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar講席。他還在法國巴黎國際學院哲學系任兼職教授。
舒斯特曼教授的學術研究主要在哲學方面,同時,他還廣泛地涉足了人文學科的其它領域。在以色利耶路撒冷大學講授比較文學課程與藝術理論;在紐約以訪問教授的身份進行跨學科的社會學研究;在柏林作為富布賴特項目的教授從事哲學與美國文化的研究;在東京被任命為美學、身體哲學與教育學的訪問研究教授。
舒斯特曼教授的著作包括《表層與深度》 “Surface and Depth” (2002),《審美經驗與藝術化人生》(“Performing Life”), 《實踐哲學:實用主義與哲學生活》( “PracticingPhilosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life”)等。
理查德·舒斯特曼是當前國際學術界頗為活躍的知名學者,是美國實用主義哲學與美學的領軍人物。他所提出的身體哲學與身體美學的概念成為當前國際學術界討論的熱點問題。他是分析美學和實用主義美學兩大潮流的集大成者,在美國和歐洲都有廣泛的影響;更重要的是作者的影響遠超出學院,他積極倡導各種積極的身體修鍊方法,力圖恢複審美、以至哲學的身體維度,恢復哲學的行動性和實踐性。
Richard Shusterman received a B.A. in Philosophy and English and an M.A. in Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After three years as an officer in the Israeli army, he continued his academic studies in England, receiving his doctorate in Philosophy from St. John's College, Oxford University. From 1998-2004, he served as chair of the Philosophy Department at Temple University, and in 2004 was appointed the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. He is also associated with the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. Although most of his career has been in philosophy, Professor Shusterman has held appointments in other disciplines in the humanities. In Israel, he taught in a comparative literature department and also lectured on art theory at Jersualem's Bezalel Art Academy . For ten years, he has been a recurrent visiting professor at the interdisciplinary Department of Liberal Studies at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York. In Paris, he was an associate of the École des Hautes Études in Sciences Sociales; in Berlin, he was a Fulbright Professor in both philosophy and American studies; and in Hiroshima he was appointed as Visiting Research Professor in Aesthetics, Somatic Philosophy, and Education.