1) to revive Baumgarten's idea of aesthetics as a life-improving cognitive discipline that extends far beyond questions of beauty and fine arts and that involves both
theory and practical exercise;
2) to end the neglect of the body that Baumgarten disastrously introduced into aesthetics (a neglect intensified by the great idealist tradition in nineteenth-century aesthetics); and
3) to propose an enlarged, somatically centered field, somaesthetics,
that can contribute significantly to many crucial philosophical concerns, thus enabling
philosophy to more successfully redeem its original role as an art of living.
http://www.artsandletters.fau.edu/humanitieschair/somaesthetics.html

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