Cassirer thinks of the musical art as a symbolic form. That allows him to put the emphasis both on the composer’s activity and on the audience’s, that is to say to reject the theory of inspiration and to bring up the idea of configuration. What is specific to music is that it can discover pure forms of the mind. The theory of imitation (and one of its variants: the theory of expression) and the...
If the issue of eco-gesture extends beyond the field of art and is independent of artistic issues, it is not sure that art, in particular contemporary participatory arts, are perfectly external to this ordinary individual and social life issue. To theorize what would be an art of eco-gesture, one needs to seek an aesthetic theory that takes it efficiently into account and, like the topic it...
Is the somaesthetics proposed by Richard Shusterman a spiritual exercise ? In ancient philosophy the body had a significant role as an understanding of the world and as a mean for spiritual exercises, but it was not without a certain number of ambiguities. Plato is carrying a certain responsibility. In the Phaedo, the body distracts us from reality and our quest for truth, but in The Republic,...