Introduction 1. Somaesthetics and care of the self: the case of Foucault 2. The silent, limping body of philosophy: somatic attention deficit in Merleau-Ponty 3. Somatic subjectivities and somatic subjugation: Beauvoir on gender and ageing 4. Wittgenstein's somaesthetics: explanation and melioration in philosophy of mind, art, and politics 5. Deeper into the storm center: the somatic philosophy of William James 6. Redeeming somatic reflection: John Dewey's philosophy of body-mind.

Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics

Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics Review Article: Somaesthetics and the Critique of Cartesian Dualism:

As an inescapable part of our everyday lifeworld, walking is an embodied practice with specific lived qualities. It is also a mode of experiencing place and the city, and in this context is an aesthetic and insightful spatial practice. Through everyday walking we develop a sense of (and for) place. The everyday practices of walking vary in their purpose, pace and rhythm, and nurture more or less creative and more or less critical relationships to urban space. Walkscapes are rhythmic. Walking practices are constitutive of ‘place-ballets’, as defined by David Seamon, choreographed wholes of multiple place rhythms. As such, they impact on the rhythmical continuums of urban places, influencing and suggesting their tempo. Through a review of the literature and illustrated by fieldwork, this paper takes a phenomenological stance on walking. It starts by unravelling aspects and attributes of its character and continues by focusing on the experience of walking in the city and its relationship to sense of place. I...

Walking and Rhythmicity: Sensing Urban Space

In the late 1890s Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), who had been trained as a Viennese neurologist, created a new field, psychoanalysis, which was designed to understand and treat neurotic afflictions. Although not a political thinker per se, Freud contributed indirectly, and some of his followers directly, to modern political theory. Politically, Freud was something of a conservative liberal, sceptical in outlook and suspicious of utopian schemes. His followers did not always follow him faithfully down the trail he had blazed in the new discipline of psychoanalysis; nor did all agree with his political views. Some were conservative to the point of reaction, others radical Marxists and utopians. Some revised Freudian theory almost beyond recognition. All were alike, however, in finding in Freud the outline and essentials of a new and fruitful way of thinking about man and society. Freud’s thought An essential key to Freud’s thinking about psychopathology lies in the character of the last days of the Hapsburg Empire. A yawning gulf between reality and official ideology stimulated a general intellectual revolt and a search for the actualities beneath the pious formulae of public truth. This uprising was led by those ideally placed to see the discrepancy because they had nothing to gain from accepting the official view: the educated Jews. Mordant irony was their weapon for piercing the veil of the structure of formal beliefs. The cultural conflict between East and West that had its vortex in Vienna’s cosmopolitan intellectual life, and the sense that liberal culture was on the verge of being undermined, would be reflected throughout Freud’s mature thought (Zweig 1953; Roazen 1968; Johnston 1972; Schorske 1979).

Freud and his followers

This article will offer a thumbnail sketch of some of the key theoretical antecedents that have underscored the cultural analysis of crime and criminality in both the United States and Britain. It ...

Cultural Criminology: The Long and Winding Road

Introduction by the editor the painter of modern life Edgar Allan Poe - his life and works further notes on Edgar Poe Wagner and Tannhauser in Paris on the essence of laughter some French caricaturists some foreign caricaturists a philosophy of toys philosophic art

The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

Introduction by the editor the painter of modern life Edgar Allan Poe - his life and works further notes on Edgar Poe Wagner and Tannhauser in Paris on the essence of laughter some French caricaturists some foreign caricaturists a philosophy of toys philosophic art.

Jonathan Mayne

Papers

The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, and Art in Paris 1845-1862

Art in Paris, 1845-1862: Salons and Other Exhibitions

Water-Colour Painting in Britain. Vol. II: The Romantic Period