The Entanglement : : How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are / / Alva Noë.
Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon—and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselvesIn The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding hu...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I -- 1 Art in Mind -- 2 Domestic Entanglements -- 3 Dance Incorporate -- 4 Styles of Seeing -- 5 The Writerly Attitude -- Part II -- 6 The Aesthetic Predicament -- 7 Fragile Bodies -- 8 Existential Style -- 9 Toward an Aesthetics for the Entanglement -- 10 Reorienting Ourselves -- Part III -- 11 The Seepage Problem -- 12 Nature after Art -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon—and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselvesIn The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.Life supplies art with its raw materials, but art, Noë argues, remakes life by giving us resources to live differently. Our lives are permeated with the aesthetic. Indeed, human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon, and art—our most direct and authentic way of engaging the aesthetic—is the truest way of understanding ourselves. All this suggests that human nature is not a natural phenomenon. Neither biology, cognitive science, nor AI can tell a complete story of us, and we can no more pin ourselves down than we can fix or settle on the meaning of an artwork. Even more, art and philosophy are the means to set ourselves free, at least to some degree, from convention, habit, technology, culture, and even biology. In making these provocative claims, Noë explores examples of entanglement—in artworks and seeing, writing and speech, and choreography and dancing—and examines a range of scientific efforts to explain the human.Challenging the notions that art is a mere cultural curiosity and that philosophy has been outmoded by science, The Entanglement offers a new way of thinking about human nature, the limits of natural science in understanding the human, and the essential role of art and philosophy in trying to know ourselves. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780691239293 9783111319292 9783111318912 9783111319223 9783111318646 9783110749748 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780691239293?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Alva Noë. |