Genius and paradox of self-styling

Abstract

This is the italian translation – realised thanks to the availability and courtesy of prof. Shusterman - of the chapter 10 of this text Performing live. Aesthetic Alternatives For The Ends of Art, published in 2000 by the Cornell University Press. In this text, as Shusterman himself emphasizes in the preface, he proposes to highlight the value of aesthetic experience exploring roles, methods and meanings also in those areas marginalized by traditional philosophical currents. The focus, as always in the works of Shusterman, is therefore placed in the living arts, all integrated – and this is the essay underlines it right from the beginning – in what is the most precious of all the arts, the art of living well.