Alexander Kremer

Alexander Kremer is a habilitated associate professor of philosophy at the University of Szeged, Hungary. His professional field of interest includes hermeneutics, ethics, aesthetics, and pragmatism, especially neopragmatism. He is the author of four books (Chapters from the History of Western Philosophy from Thales to Hume (1997, Hungarian); Why Did Heidegger Become Heidegger? (2001, Hungarian); Basic Ethics (2004, Hungarian), Philosophy of the Late Richard Rorty (2016, Hungarain)) and has published numerous articles on philosophical hermeneutics, Richard Rorty’s neopragmatism, and Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics. He is the editor in chief of Pragmatism Today (www.pragmatismtoday.eu , 2010-2024), and was the head of the Hungarian Forum of Somaesthetics (2018-2024) and was a Visiting Fulbright Professor at the UNCC for two academic semesters in 2005-2006. I met Richard Shusterman in Wroclaw in 2012. At that time, I had been a member of the Central European Pragmatist Forum for at least a decade, promoting and teaching pragmatist philosophy to my students and writing for various journals. I had been working primarily on Dewey and Rorty, but I only knew about Shusterman's somaaesthetics by reputation. In 2012, however, we became friends and I invited him to Hungary, where he had only been once before as a tourist. The result was the first conference on somaesthetics in Hungary in 2014, 'Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics' (Budapest, ELTE). Building on this success, we organized three more conferences ('The Soma as the Core of Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics' /Szeged, SZTE, 2017/; 'Somaesthetics: Between the Human Body and Beyond' /Szeged, SZTE, 2018/; 'The Promise of Pragmatist Aesthetics: Looking Forward after 30 Years' /Budapest, MOME, 2022), and in addition to numerous studies and conference proceedings in English, Somaesthetics and the Art of Life (Szeged, JATEPress, 2014. In 2018, we established the Hungarian Forum for Somaesthetics (MSzF;Building on this success, we organized three more conferences ('The Soma as the Core of Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics' /Szeged, SZTE, 2017/; 'Somaesthetics: Between the Human Body and Beyond' /Szeged, SZTE, 2018/; 'The Promise of Pragmatist Aesthetics: Looking Forward after 30 Years' /Budapest, MOME, 2022), and in addition to numerous studies and conference proceedings in English, Somaesthetics and the Art of Life (Szeged, JATEPress, 2014. In 2018, we established the Hungarian Forum for Somaesthetics (MSzF; Hungarian Forum for Somaesthetics, HFS), in order to be able to interact with existing somaesthetic organisations, associations and forums in other countries on the same level. I was its first president (2018-2024).

Publications

(2023) - A Short Introduction to Everyday Aesthetics: Thomas Leddy, The Extraordinary in the Ordinary. The Aesthetics of Everyday Life. Pragmatism Today 14(2): 90-93
(2023) - Pragmatism, Sex and Somaesthetics. Pragmatism Today 14(2): 12-20
(2021) - “Ars Erotica and Scientia Sexualis.” The Journal of Somaesthetics, Volume 7, Number 2, pp. 84-89.
(2021) - “Why Do I Advocate Somaesthetics?.” Pragmatism Today, Vol. 12, Issue 1, pp. 67-72.
(2021) - Some Thoughts on Dewey's Ethics and Rorty's Late Philosophy. Pragmatism Today 12(2): 212-217
(2021) - “Transhumanism or Pragmatism?”. In: Heading Towards Humans Again: Aspects of Bioethics in the New Age of Science. Edited by Miroslav Radenković. Trivent Ethics In Science & Technology, Volume 4, DOI: 10.22618/TP.AEBIO.20214), pp. 21-31.
(2020) - “Pragmatists on the Everyday Aesthetic Experience.” ESPES, The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics, Vol 9, No 2, pp. 66-74.
(2020) - Kremer, Alexander, Emil Višňovský, and Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński. “Rorty and the Intellectual Culture of Central Europe.” In: A Companion to Rorty, ed. Alan Malachowski, Wiley Blackwell, 2020.
(2020) - Bodies in the Streets: The Somaesthetics of City Life, 1 Studies in Somaesthetics, ed. by Richard Shusterman. Pragmatism Today 11(1): 157-163
(2019) - “Rorty on Kant's Ethics.” Nordic Studies in Pragmatism (1799-3954): 4, pp 235-250.
(2018) - “The Moral Relationship of the Human and the Non-Human Animals in Light of Ethology.” In: Ethics of Emerging Biotechnologies: From Educating the Young to Engineering Posthumans, ed. Maria Sinaci, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, 28-35
(2018) - “Art as Experience: Gadamer and Pragmatist Aesthetics.” In: Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics. Ed. Richard Shusterman, Leiden/Boston: Brill, pp. 43-55.
(2017) - “A szómaesztétika teremtője Szegeden. Interjú Richard Shusterman neopragmatista filozófussal.” Tiszatáj
(2016) - “Philosophy as Cultural Politics in Rorty, Shusterman and Pragmatism.” Pragmatism Today, Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 79-86.
(2016) - A késői Richard Rorty filozófiája. Szeged: JatePress.
(2015) - “Rorty’s and Shusterman’s Notion of the Self.” Pragmaism Today, Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 67-75.
(2014) - Pragmatism and Feminism. Pragmatism Today, Vol. 5, Issue 1, Summer 2014
(2014) - Richard Shusterman in Budapest - An Interview. PragmatismToday 5(2): 7-11
(2014) - “Understanding, Interpretation, Art and Neopragmatism.” In: Practicing Pragmatist Aesthetics. Critical Perspectives on the Arts. Edited by Wojciech Małecki. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, pp. 63-80.
(2014) - “Rorty, Fish és Shusterman a megértésről, az értelmezésről és a művészetről.” Többlet 6; pp. 313-326.
(2014) - “Szómaesztétika és filozófia. Interjú Richard Shusterman filozófussal.” Élet és Irodalom, LVIII: 29.
(2013) - Gadamer's and Shusterman's Aesthetics. Pragmatism Today 4(1): 110-114
(2013) - Pragmatism, Religion, Democracy. Pragmatism Today, Vol. 4, Issue 2, Winter 2013
(2013) - “Gadamer and Rorty on the History of Philosophy.” Philosophy Today, pp. 129-140.
(2013) - “Rorty and Democracy.” Pragmatism Today 4(2): 65-72
(2012) - Pragmatism and Law. Pragmatism Today, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Summer 2012
(2011) - Martin Heidegger's Influence on Richard Rorty's Philosophy. Pragmatism Today 2(1): 78-93
(2011) - The Roots of Rorty’s Philosophy. Pragmatism Today, Vol. 2, Issue 1, Summer 2011
(2009) - Kremer, Alexander and John Ryder - Self and Society. Vol. IV. Central European Pragmatist Forum. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi Press.
(2009) - “From Pragmatism to Somaesthetics as Philosophy”. In: Shusterman’s Somaesthetics, ed. Jerold J. Abrams, Leiden/Boston: Brill, pp. 44-60.
(2004) - Etikai alapvetés. Szeged: JatePress.