[MaFLA] The Promise of Pragmatist Aesthetics: Looking Forward after 30 Years.

[Alexander Kremer]

*Budapest between May 25-28th, 2022*


*The title of the conference: "The Promise of Pragmatist Aesthetics:
Looking Forward after 30 Years.”*


Shusterman’s significant book, *Pragmatist Aesthetics* 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.


During the last three decades, *Pragmatist Aesthetics* 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.

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 *Pragmatist
Aesthetics* and its French version entitled *L’Art à l’état vif*. The
conference was called "Pragmatist Aesthetics: 20 years later / L’art à
l’état vif: 20 ans après” and the art show’s title was *Aesthetic
Transaction:* *Pragmatist Philosophy through Art and Life*.
Ten years later we wish to explore 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 *Budapest
between May 25-28th, 2022.* The title of the conference is "The Promise of
Pragmatist Aesthetics: Looking Forward after 30 Years.”
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