Titre : Aesthetics today? Three arguments in favor of its rehabilitation 

Auteurs : Alice Dupas,  

Revue : Art and Science 

Numéro : Issue 1 

Volume : 7 

Date : 2023/03/14 

DOI : 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2023.0943 

ISSN : 2515-8767 

Résumé : If I refuse to abandon aesthetics as a discipline as well as an experience, it is because of at least three arguments. The first is that contemporary art, even when it is most overtly conceptual and intellectualized, does not entirely contravene the aesthetic, that is, the sensitive and affective, dimension of its experience. A second argument determines that even the contemporary philosophy that is most concerned with desesthetising art –that of Arthur Danto– is not inherently anaesthetic. The last argument, definitely the main one since it rests on the theory of art I am defending, maintains that the latter – the enactive sense-making aesthetics– operates from Alexander Baumgarten’s seminal aesthetics and extends it on a crucial point, by making it a constitutively embodied cognitive aesthetics. 

Éditeur : ISTE OpenScience