Botond Csuka

Botond Csuka is Assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Szeged. He works on early modern philosophy and eighteenth-century intellectual history, and is particularly interested in how the early modern cooperation of philosophy, science, medicine and the arts shaped our modern understanding of the human body and somatic practices. Botond also has an interest in the current developments in somaesthetics, everyday aesthetics and environmental aesthetics.

Publications

• (2024) - "Medicine and Physiology in Joseph Addison's Aesthetics". In Fórizs, G. et al. (eds.) Aesthetic Communication in Europe 1700-1850. Berlin: de Gruyter.
• (2023) - "Review of Somaesthetics and Sport: edited by Andrew Edgar". Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 50(2), 300–304.
• (2022) - 'Gyógyító penitencia': A testedzés a korai brit felvilágosodás orvosi irodalmában. In Draskóczy, E. és Etlinger, M. (szerk.). Betegség és gyógyulás a kora újkori irodalomban (1450–1760). Budapest: Reciti Kiadó, 529-543.
• (2022) - "Review of Philosophy and the Art of Writing by Richard Shusterman". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 80(4), 523–527
• (2022) - “Pragmatist Aesthetics: Looking Back after 30 Years – An Interview with Richard Shusterman” MOME Budapest
• (2020) - "From the Sympathetic Principle to the Nerve Fibres and Back: Revisiting Edmund Burke’s Solutions to the "Paradox of Negative Emotions"". In: Balogh, P. and Fórizs, G. (eds.) Angewandte anthropologische Ästhetik. Konzepte und Praktiken 1700–1900 = Applied Anthropological Aesthetics. Concepts and Practices 1700–1900. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 139-173.
• (2014) - “Szómaesztétika és az élet művészete. Válogatás Richard Shusterman írásaiból”. BUKSZ, 26:3, pp. 283-286.