122 research outputs found
Alberto L. Siani, Landscape Aesthetics: Toward an Engaged Ecology
No full textAlberto L. Siani, Landscape Aesthetics: Toward an Engaged Ecology (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024)Alberto L. Siani, Landscape Aesthetics: Toward an Engaged Ecology (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024
Premessa [Ragione estetica ed ermeneutica del senso]
No full textPremessa al volume "Ragione estetica ed ermeneutica del senso. Studi in memoria di Leonardo Amoroso
Continuando un dialogo: Amoroso e la ridefinizione deweyana dell’estetica
No full textDopo una prima sezione a carattere introduttivo sulla relazione tra estetica e arte concepita come esperienza, passo a delineare tre implicazioni fondamentali di un’arte concepita, come fa Dewey, come tratto distintivo dell’umano. Su questa base ritorno, nella terza sezione, all’interpretazione di Amoroso e al compito di un’estetica a essa ispirata, della quale delineo due dimensioni (quella più strettamente teorico-antropologica e quella più concretamente pratico-critica). Nella quarta e ultima sezione sviluppo ulteriormente questa idea di estetica, sottolineando l’organicità e l’inseparabilità delle due dimensioni
Landscape Aesthetics: Toward an Engaged Ecology
No full textThe notion of landscape typically seems innocuous, associated with leisure and contemplation. Likewise, aesthetics is often seen as apolitical, a matter of subjective tastes and preferences. This book challenges the common understanding of these categories as disengaged and demonstrates how uniting landscape studies and philosophical aesthetics opens new ways of addressing both the environmental crisis and the crisis of the humanities.
Alberto L. Siani argues that the concept of landscape helps us overcome deeply ingrained oppositions, such as nature and culture, spirit and flesh, or the environment and the human. Landscape represents the intersection of these categories and therefore provides a helpful vantage point on contemporary predicaments that cannot be understood within dualistic frameworks. An engaged aesthetics shows that landscapes are not simply ways of seeing the world but ways of being in the world, offering practical guidance for inhabiting places ethically. Landscape Aesthetics sheds new light on issues spanning art and its interpretation, environmentalism, temporality, lived spaces, justice, education, and interdisciplinarity. Bringing together a wide range of sources across philosophy and other disciplines as well as personal experience, Siani reveals the key role of landscape and aesthetics in responding to the pressing crises we face today
No Justice Without Autonomy! Olympe de Gouges and Susan Moller Okin
No full textAccording to a common feminist critique of liberal conceptions of justice, the supposed neutrality of the autonomous individual subject results, because of gender-based assumptions, in paradox and injustice. This paper addresses this critique, asking how liberal theories of justice should be reformed accordingly (first section). The two philosophers considered are Olympe de Gouges and Susan Moller Okin, responding respectively to the French-revolutionary Republicanism and John Rawls’s theory of justice as fairness. Both Gouges and Okin criticize the contradiction between the allegedly neutral universalism of liberal theories and their actual non-inclusive character toward women (and not only), but they pursue this criticism in different ways. De Gouges, while presenting women as independent, does not have autonomy has her goal, but rather social cohesion, morality, and happiness. Faced with the ambiguities of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, she adopts herself an ambiguous position (second section). Such ambiguities are avoided by Okin (third section), whose egalitarian claim firmly relies on individual autonomy. Rather than criticizing the neutral autonomous subject as intrinsically non-inclusive, she convincingly criticizes its use as a descriptive tool, while putting it forward as a normative ideal for both social reform and conceptions of justice
Hegel and the Present of Art’s Past Character
No full textThis book reclaims Hegel’s notion of the “end of art”—or, more precisely, of “art’s past character”—not just as a piece of the history of philosophy but as a living critical and interpretive methodology. It addresses the presence of the past character of art in both Hegel and contemporary philosophy and aesthetics.
The book’s innovative contribution lies in unifying the Hegelian thesis with discussions of contemporary art and philosophy. The author not only offers a Hegelian exegesis but also applies the idea of the past character of art to themes that are related to both Hegel’s philosophy, such as the French Revolution and the modern state, Kantian aesthetics, and religion and the sacred space disclosed for art, and going beyond Hegel, such as Celan's poetry, Gramsci's criticism of Croce, human rights, and even the grunge rock band Pearl Jam. Conversely, such non-Hegelian explorations will help enlighten what may look like a specific thread of Hegel’s aesthetics, but can be used to shed light on some core motives of his philosophy. The author’s interpretation of art’s past character reclaims the full value, attractiveness, and philosophical soundness of Hegel’s thesis, while rejecting its interpretation in terms of a complete dissolution of the aesthetic element into the philosophical one.
Hegel and the Present of Art’s Past Character will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Hegel, philosophy of art and aesthetics, history of philosophy, political philosophy, and art theory
Stefan Bird-Pollan. Hegel, Freud and Fanon. The Dialectic of Emancipation. London-New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. ISBN 978-1-78348-301-3. Pp. 262.
No full textRecensione del volume "Hegel, Freud and Fanon. The Dialectic of Emancipation" di Stefan Bird-Pollan (London-New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)
Recensione di Roberta Dreon, Human Landscapes. Contributions to a Pragmatist Anthropology, Albany, SUNY Press, 2022
No full textRecensione del volume: Roberta Dreon, Human Landscapes. Contributions to a Pragmatist Anthropology, Albany, SUNY Press, 2022
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