<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Myriad Pro Cond""><b style="text-align:start">Budapest between May 25-28th, 2022</b><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Myriad Pro Cond""><b style="text-align:start"><br></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Myriad Pro Cond""><b><span style="text-align:start">The title of the conference: </span><a name="_Hlk85466019" style="text-align:start">"</a><span style="text-align:start">The Promise of Pragmatist Aesthetics: Looking Forward after 30 Years.”</span></b><b style="text-align:start"><br></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Myriad Pro Cond""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Myriad Pro Cond"">Shusterman’s significant book, <i>Pragmatist
Aesthetics</i> was published in 1992. Due to the author’s multicultural
background, diverse philosophical research (analytic aesthetics, pragmatism,
Adorno, Bourdieu, etc.,) and his attractive topics of inquiry (rap, popular art,
body culture), his work revitalized aesthetic discussions. At the turn of the
new century, with the book’s second edition, Shusterman launched his new project
of somaesthetics, which is essentially an extension of his approach to
pragmatist aesthetics. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Myriad Pro Cond"">During the last three decades, <i>Pragmatist
Aesthetics</i> has been translated into fourteen languages, and the pragmatist
approach to aesthetics has become an important direction in the philosophy of
art and the aesthetic field. Similarly, somaesthetics has developed into an
interdisciplinary field with researchers working in the arts, politics,
education, historical and social sciences as well as health sciences and even
technology. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Myriad Pro Cond"">In May 2012 the Sorbonne’s philosophy and art
departments arranged an international conference and an art show to mark the
progress of pragmatist aesthetics since the simultaneous publication of
Shusterman’s <i>Pragmatist Aesthetics</i>
and its French version entitled </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Myriad Pro Cond"">L’Art à
l’état vif</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Myriad Pro Cond"">. The conference was called </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Myriad Pro Cond"">"</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Myriad Pro Cond"">Pragmatist Aesthetics: 20 years later /
L’art à l’état vif: 20 ans après” and the art show’s title was <i>Aesthetic Transaction:</i> <i>Pragmatist Philosophy through Art and Life</i>.<span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Myriad Pro Cond"">Ten years later we wish to
explore</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Myriad Pro Cond"">
the melioristic approach and multiple forms and impacts of pragmatist
aesthetics and somaesthetics, not with a mere retrospective regard but with an
interest on new thinking for the future. That is why the MOME (Moholy Nagy
University of Art and Design) and the Hungarian Forum for Somaesthetics are organizing
a conference in <b>Budapest between May 25-28th, 2022.</b> The title of the
conference is<a name="_Hlk85825142"> </a><a name="_Hlk85466019">"</a>The Promise of Pragmatist Aesthetics: Looking Forward after 30
Years.”</span><br></div></div></div></div>