理查德·舒斯特曼，1948年出生，犹太裔美国人，世界著名美学家、人文学者。

理查德·舒斯特曼在耶路撒冷希伯来大学获得哲学与英语的学士学位，哲学硕士学位。之后以色列军中任公职三年。其后，他在牛津大学的圣约翰学院获得哲学博士学位。1998至2004年，舒斯特曼任天普大学哲学系主任，2004年接掌佛罗里达亚特兰大大学Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar讲席。他还在法国巴黎国际学院哲学系任兼职教授。

舒斯特曼教授的学术研究主要在哲学方面，同时，他还广泛地涉足了人文学科的其它领域。在以色利耶路撒冷大学讲授比较文学课程与艺术理论；在纽约以访问教授的身份进行跨学科的社会学研究；在柏林作为富布赖特项目的教授从事哲学与美国文化的研究；在东京被任命为美学、身体哲学与教育学的访问研究教授。

舒斯特曼教授的著作包括《表层与深度》 “Surface and Depth” (2002)，《审美经验与艺术化人生》(“Performing Life”), 《实践哲学：实用主义与哲学生活》（ “PracticingPhilosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life”） 等。

理查德·舒斯特曼是当前国际学术界颇为活跃的知名学者，是美国实用主义哲学与美学的领军人物。他所提出的身体哲学与身体美学的概念成为当前国际学术界讨论的热点问题。他是分析美学和实用主义美学两大潮流的集大成者，在美国和欧洲都有广泛的影响；更重要的是作者的影响远超出学院，他积极倡导各种积极的身体修炼方法，力图恢复审美、以至哲学的身体维度，恢复哲学的行动性和实践性。

Richard Shusterman received a B.A. in Philosophy and English and an M.A. in Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After three years as an officer in the Israeli army, he continued his academic studies in England, receiving his doctorate in Philosophy from St. John's College, Oxford University. From 1998-2004, he served as chair of the Philosophy Department at Temple University, and in 2004 was appointed the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. He is also associated with the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. Although most of his career has been in philosophy, Professor Shusterman has held appointments in other disciplines in the humanities. In Israel, he taught in a comparative literature department and also lectured on art theory at Jersualem's Bezalel Art Academy . For ten years, he has been a recurrent visiting professor at the interdisciplinary Department of Liberal Studies at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York. In Paris, he was an associate of the École des Hautes Études in Sciences Sociales; in Berlin, he was a Fulbright Professor in both philosophy and American studies; and in Hiroshima he was appointed as Visiting Research Professor in Aesthetics, Somatic Philosophy, and Education.