“Beauty and Action”, Leszek Koczanowicz and Katarzyna Liszka Part One: Politics, Community, and the City “Somaesthetics and Politics: Incorporating Pragmatist Aesthetics for Social Action”, Richard Shusterman “Embodied Communities”, Leszek Koczanowicz “Ostentation and Agoraphobia in the City”, Adam Chmielewski Part Two: Aesthetic Experience “‘Anything Goes’ vs. ‘Who Touches this Book Touches a Man’: William James and Paul Feyerabend on Metaphysical, Ethical, and Aesthetic ‘Abundance’”, Sami Pihlström “Aesthetics as Duty or Aesthetics as Faith: Notes on Richard Shusterman’s Pragmatist Aesthetics, with Reference to Adorno and Castoriadis”, David Schauffler Part Three: Ethics, Humanism, and Social Hope “The Linguistic World: Rorty’s Aesthetic Meliorism”, Rosa M. Calcaterra “The Concept of Man in the Shadow of the Shoah: Geras, Rorty and Shusterman in Dialogue”, Katarzyna Liszka “Experience and Judgment: Political and Aesthetic”, John Ryder “Somaesthetic Encounter with Oneself and the Other”, Robert Dobrowolski Part Four: Art of Living and Life Politics “Making the Pragmatist Art of Living Explicit”, Emil Višnovský “The Aesthetic Cosmopolitan from a Neo-Pragmatist Perspective: Themes and Challenges in Shusterman”, Michael Rings “Philosophical Anthropology in Life Politics of Today”, Hans-Peter Krüger About the Contributors Index