Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thinking through the body: educating for the humanities -- The body as background -- Self-knowledge and its discontents: from Socrates to somaesthetics -- Muscle memory and the somaesthetic pathologies of everyday life -- Somaesthetics in the philosophy classroom: a practical approach -- Somaesthetics and the limits of aesthetics -- Somaesthetics and Burke's sublime -- Pragmatism and cultural politics: from textualism to somaesthetics -- Body consciousness and performance: somaesthetics east and west -- Somaesthetics and architecture: a critical option -- Photography as performative process -- Asian ars erotica and the question of sexual aesthetics -- Somaesthetic awakening and the art of living: everyday aesthetics American transcendentalism and Japanese Zen practice -- Somatic style.