ART & MUSIC CRITICISM ESSAYS
"Colors of War and the Colors of Words" an essay on Terry Rosenberg's exhibit "Colors of War"
"The Ups and Downs of Urban Life" in A. Vermeulen, ed. States of Humanity. Antwerp: Museum of Contemporay Art, 1999, 88a-88e.
"Ghetto Music" in Journal of Rap, Winter 1992, pp. 11, 12, 18.
"Family Values or Homebody Values: The Question to Development" in Journal of Rap, Spring 1993, pp. 9, 10, 28, 29.
"Rap's Humanism" in Journal of Rap, Winter 1993, pp. 5, 6, 18.
"A House Divided" in Documenta X - the book (Kassel: Cantz, 1997), 650-652. Reprinted in English and German, in C. Höller and R. Trockel (eds.), A House for Pigs and People (Cologne: König, 1997), 31-35, 37-42.
"Breaking Out of the White Cube" in Suzin Gablik, ed. Conversations Before the End of Time. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995) 247-265.
Moving Truth: Affect and Authenticity in Country Musicals in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 57 (1999), 221-233.
PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS AND REVIEWS IN ENGLISH
Philosophical Essays
- “The Pragmatist Aesthetics of William James” in British Journal of Aesthetics, October 2011, 347-361.
- "Mind-Body Problems" in The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 23, 2005, B5.
- Metaphysics in the Megabookstore from the Chronicle of Higher Education, November 4, 2002
- The Perils of Making Philosophy a Lingua Americana in The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 11, 2000, B 4-5.
- France's Philosophe Impolitique from The Nation, May 3, 1999, 25-28.
- Essay on Foucault: The Self as a Work of Art as published in The Nation, June 30, 1997, 25-28. ( Electronic version of this review essay on Foucault)
Academic Articles in Philosophy
- "Thinking through the Body, Educating for the Humanities: A Plea for Somaesthetics" in Journal of Aesthetic Education, 40.1 (Spring 2006): 1-21.
- Moving Truth: Affect and Authenticity in Country Musicals in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 57 (1999): 221-233.
- Somaesthetics: A Disciplinary Proposal in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 57 (1999): 299-313.
- Dewey on Experience: Foundation or Reconstruction? in Philosophical Forum, 26 (1994): 127-148. Reprinted in C. Haskins and D. Seiple (eds.), Dewey Reconfigured: Essays on Deweyan Pragmatism (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999), 193-219.
- The End of Aesthetic Experience in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 55 (1997): 29-41.
- Putnam and Cavell on the Ethics of Democracy in Political Theory, 25 (1997): 193-214.
Book Reviews
- Review of James's Essays on Radical Pragmatism in Art Press (April 2006)
- Review of Barbara Herrnstein Smith's Contingencies of Value in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47.2 (Spring 1989): 182-184.
OTHER DISCUSSIONS
- Somaesthetics and Democracy (Martin Jay)
- "Response to Richard Shusterman" (Rorty on Habermas and Shusterman)
- Detroit Metro Times discussion of somaesthetics (December 12, 2002)
- Practice, Theory, Pleasure, and the Problems of Form and Resistance (Antonia Soulez)
- Shusterman’s Pragmatist Aesthetics (Thomas Leddy)
- The Two-Dewey Thesis Continued (Paul Taylor)
- Pragmatism and Criticism: A Response to Three Critics (Richard Shusterman)
- "Definition, Dramatization, and Rasa" (Shusterman's response to Ghosh on aesthetics)
- "Pragmatism between Aesthetic Experience and Aesthetic Education" (Shusterman's response to Granger on pragmatist aesthetics)
- "Complexities of Aesthetic Experience: Response to Johnston" (Richard Shusterman)
- "Pragmatism and Popular Culture: Shusterman, Popular Art, and the Challenge of Visuality" (Stefan Snaevarr)
- "Who Is There? Finding the Other in the Self" (Philosophy of Education 2007 - Gert Biesta on the educational implications of Shusterman's work)
- "The Locus of Self" (Philosophy of Education 2007 - Kal Alston on Shusterman's call for self-knowledge)
INTERVIEWS
In English
- Pragmatist Aesthetics: Histories, Questions, and Consequences
- Interview in artUS : "Soma Holiday"
- Interview in Parachute: "Art and Self-Fashioning"
- Two Questions on Cannibalism and Rap in English and Portuguese
- Breaking Out of the White Cube
- The Pragmatist Aesthetics of Richard Shusterman: A Conversation
- Interview in Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education
- The Helka Interview in Helsinki (June 2000)
- Interview in Naked Punch
- Interview at the Wittgenstein symposium in Austria (1995)
In French
- "L'Esthétique Pragmatiste: Un Enjeu Politique" (2019)
- "Une esthétique biolgique" 02 No 46 (Summer 2008)
- Profile/ Interview in Philosophie Magazine (March 2008)
- Profile/ Interview in Le Point (13 December 2007)
- Interview and book review in Le Monde (30 November 2007)
- Interview in le gredin
- Interview in Revue d'esthetique (1994)
- Interview in the French Daily Le Jour
In Chinese
- Somaesthetic dialogue at Fudan, South China Quarterly (2014)
- Commentary on the discussion between Pan Gongkai and Richard Shusterman (2011)
- Philosophical Trends - Interview and book review of Chinese version of Performing Live (2008)
- "Somaesthetics: Progress and Issues-- A Dialogue and Argument between American and Chinese Scholars", Academic Monthly, No.8, (2007)
- Interview at Peking University (October 2002), published in the Peking University Journal of Philosophy
In Other Languages
- Interview in Scenari (Italian)
- Feldenkrais Forum Interview, " Ist man glücklicher, wenn man sich selbst kennt?" (German)
- Interview in Asterisk (Copenhagen, August 2004)
- Interviewed in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature, and Culture
- Polish interview in Odra
- Brazilian interview in Folha de São Paolo
- Interview in Material, a Swedish Art Magazine
- SAMTALER I SAMTIDEN Norwegian interview
- Finnish interview in Konigsberg
- Interview in Synteesi