Abstract
The paper provides a reading of Richard Shusterman’s 2016 The
Adventures of the Man in Gold: Paths between Art and Life. I contend that this book,
that brings together philosophy, literature and photography, provides a compelling,
albeit implicit, expression of two of the challenges that somaesthetics poses to
philosophy – first, a rethinking of the foundations of subjectivity in the Western
philosophical tradition by way of the concept of the alter ego; and second, a challenge
to the received perception of the nature and relation of philosophy and art.