The Entanglement
How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
Alva Noë
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (adapté aux mobiles)
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The Entanglement
How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
Alva Noë
Ă propos de ce livre
Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenonâand why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselves In The Entanglement, philosopher Alva NoĂ« 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, NoĂ« 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 artâour most direct and authentic way of engaging the aestheticâis 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, NoĂ« explores examples of entanglementâin artworks and seeing, writing and speech, and choreography and dancingâand 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.