CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements 7 -- List of Abbreviations 9 -- Introduction 11 -- Chapter 1: The Varieties of (Aesthetic) Experience 23 -- 1.1. Zarathustra and the Paradoxes of Contemporary Pragmatism 23 -- 1.2. Two Deweys, Two Deweyans, and the Problem of Nondiscursivity 25 -- 1.3. Art as (Aesthetic) Experience 37 -- 1.4. Conclusions 55 -- Chapter 2: Interpretation and Beyond 63 -- 2.1. No Gods Before Interpretation 63 -- 2.2. Shusterman's Critique of Hermeneutic Universalism 65 -- 2.3. Interpretation and Literature 74 -- 2.4. Conclusions 99 -- Chapter 3: On Rap and Other Dangerous Things: In Defense of Popular Art 109 -- 3.1. Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and Theodor W. Adorno 109 -- 3.2. The Theory and Practice of Meliorism 112 -- 3.3. Conclusions 135 -- Chapter 4: Body Consciousness, Body Surfaces, and Somaesthetics 141 -- 4.1. The Somatic Turn and Its Discontents 141 -- 4.2. Somaesthetics 143 -- 4.3. Conclusions 167 -- Afterword 173 -- Bibliography 179.