Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is a philosopher whose first life was as a dancer/choreographer and dance professor/scholar. She maintains an ongoing Courtesy Professor appointment in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon where she taught periodically in the 1990s. She has published numerous articles in humanities, art, and science journals, with recent publications in Psychotherapy and Politics International and Anthropological Theory. Her authored books include The Phenomenology of Dance; The Roots of Thinking; The Roots of Power: Animate Form and Gendered Bodies; The Roots of Morality; The Primacy of Movement; and The Corporeal Turn: An Interdisciplinary Reader. She earned an M.A. in Dance and a Ph.D. in Dance and Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, where she also pursued but did not complete a second doctorate in evolutionary biology. She received a Distinguished Fellowship from the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, UK, for her xenophobia research during its inaugural year, themed "The Legacy of Charles Darwin."
- The Phenomenology of Dance (1966) Book
- The Primacy of Movement (Expanded Second Edition) (2011) Book
- The Roots of Thinking (1990) Book
- The Corporeal Turn: An Interdisciplinary Reader (2009) Book
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