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Epistemologies of Aesthetics

The ideas of “art as research” and ”research as art” have risen over the past two decades as important critical focuses for the philosophy of media, aesthetics, and art. Of particular interest is how the methodologies of art and science might be merged to create a better conceptual understanding of art-based research.
           
In Epistemologies of Aesthetics, Dieter Mersch deconstructs and displaces the terminology that typically accompanies the question of the relationship between art and scientific truth. Identifying artistic practices as modes of thought that do not make use of language in a way that can easily be translated into scientific discourse, Mersch advocate for an aesthetic mode of thought beyond the “linguistic turn,” a way of thinking that cannot be substituted by any other disciplinary system. A sophisticated reflection on the epistemological status of the aesthetic by one of Germany’s leading philosophers, Epistemologies of Aesthetics will be of great interest within this growing field of study.

176 pages | 4 1/3 x 6 2/3 | © 2015

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Research in the Realm of Aesthetics
A Short History of ‘Truth’ in Art
Con-Stellare: The reflexive Epistemic of the Arts
In Conclusion: Epistemic Practices of the Arts

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