Epistemology of Aesthetics: édition anglaise (textes en anglais et en allemand) (Think Art) - Softcover

Mersch, Dieter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3037345217 ISBN 13: 9783037345214

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2015

Synopsis

The ideas of "art as research" and "research as art" have risen over the past two decades as important critical focuses for the philosophy of media, aesthetics, and art. Of particular interest is how the methodologies of art and science might be merged to create a better conceptual understanding of art-based research. In Epistemology of Aesthetics, Dieter Mersch deconstructs and displaces the terminology that typically accompanies the question of the relationship between art and scientific truth. Identifying artistic practices as modes of thought that do not make use of language in a way that can easily be translated into scientific discourse, Mersch advocates for an aesthetic mode of thought beyond the "linguistic turn," a way of thinking that cannot be substituted by any other disciplinary system. Features a sophisticated reflection on the epistemological status of the aesthetic by one of Germany's leading philosophers, Epistemology of Aesthetics will be of great interest within this growing field of study.

About this title

About the Author:

Dieter Mersch is head of the Institute for Theory at the Zurich University of the Arts, a member of the German Society for Philosophy and the German Society for Aesthetics, and a board member of Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3037345217
• ISBN 13: 9783037345214
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96