129 research outputs found
Back to the Future: Aesthetics Today
This paper originated as the keynote address at the conference âAesthetics Todayâ organized by the Finnish Society of Aesthetics to mark its 40th anniversary and was delivered at the University of Helsinki on March 1, 2012. Written for that particular occasion the sense of an oral presentation has been maintained. Shustermanâs point of departure is the thesis that contemporary aesthetics can be characterized by a number of leading themes that mark a return to older aesthetic perspectives, after these perspectives have been neglected in modern philosophical discussions. The paper briefly outlines and explores three of these themes whose increasing importance in current aesthetics can appeal to historical antecedents, namely: a focus on perception, the expansion of the aesthetic field beyond the philosophy of fine art, and the close connection of the aesthetic and the practical. After that, Shusterman formulates a fourth theme in aesthetics today which incorporates the first three and whose value for contemporary aesthetics he seeks to highlight, namely: the somatic, as exemplified by somaesthetics
La Soma-esthétique de Merleau-Ponty
Ćuvres de Maurice Merleau-Ponty est une anthologie dâune rĂ©elle utilitĂ© pour les lecteurs sâintĂ©ressant Ă la pensĂ©e du philosophe, et peut-ĂȘtre davantage encore pour ceux sâintĂ©ressant Ă sa contribution Ă lâesthĂ©tique et Ă la philosophie de lâart. Cet ouvrage volumineux (presque 1850 pages) rĂ©unit la version intĂ©grale de ses Ćuvres majeures telles que Humanisme et terreur : essai sur le problĂšme communiste, Les Aventures de la dialectique, PhĂ©nomĂ©nologie de la perception, La Prose du monde, L..
The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter: A Pragmatist Perspective
The paper offers a philosophical commentary on the widely discussed 1981 meeting of Derrida and Gadamer at Parisâ Goethe Institute. These two figures âvirtually personify, in hermeneutics and deconstruction, the two major and rival âschoolsâ of contemporary continental philosophy associated with the primacy of interpretation.â Adopting a pragmatist perspective, the author discusses their approaches to the issue of interpretation â different and often seen as mutually exclusive. He claims that Derrida and Gadamer in fact have a great deal in common and tries to show that American pragmatism offers a mode of mediation, which allows us to grasp their mutual relations. The author concentrates on the three central issues that emerge from Derridaâs Three Questions to Hans-Georg Gadamer, namely the context of interpretation, consensual continuity versus rupture as the basis or precondition of interpretation, and the nature or possibility of perfect dialogical understanding.The paper offers a philosophical commentary on the widely discussed 1981 meeting of Derrida and Gadamer at Parisâ Goethe Institute. These two figures âvirtually personify, in hermeneutics and deconstruction, the two major and rival âschoolsâ of contemporary continental philosophy associated with the primacy of interpretation.â Adopting a pragmatist perspective, the author discusses their approaches to the issue of interpretation â different and often seen as mutually exclusive. He claims that Derrida and Gadamer in fact have a great deal in common and tries to show that American pragmatism offers a mode of mediation, which allows us to grasp their mutual relations. The author concentrates on the three central issues that emerge from Derridaâs Three Questions to Hans-Georg Gadamer, namely the context of interpretation, consensual continuity versus rupture as the basis or precondition of interpretation, and the nature or possibility of perfect dialogical understanding
Etica ed estetica: somaestetica e l'arte di vivere
Ethics and aesthetics tend to be sharply distinguished and frequently opposed as rival realms of value. The apparent conflict between them is discomforting for artists and theorists who seek to combine aesthetic values and ethical aims in their work. My article strives to ease this theoretical tension in two ways. First, through a genealogical analysis of the complexity of our concepts of ethics and aesthetics, I argue that, in some of their historical conceptions, they display considerable convergence. Here I appeal both to classical Western and Asian theories of ethics and aesthetics. Second, I show how these notions converge in the pragmatist, somaesthetic notion of an embodied art of living
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