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Ethics of Alterity: Aisthetics of Existence (Performance Philosophy) by Jörg Sternagel, John R. J. Eyck is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Providing a solid media-philosophical groundwork, the book contributes to the theory of alterity in Performance Philosophy, while stimulating and inspiring future inquiries where studies in media, art, and literature intersect with philosophy. It collects a selective as well as productive diversity of philosophical, literary, and artistic figures of thought, attaining an exacting framework as a result of a clearly elaborated ethics of alterity, innovatively opened up by way of an aisthetics of existence: Touching upon the Aristotelian concept of aisthesis, the material, perceptual and sensory dimensions of everyday bodily existence are highlighted to move beyond what aesthetics in Modern Philosophy just specializes in, namely art and the beautiful. The notion of existence is therefore borrowed from Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who understands it as something concrete and richly interrelated, so as to avoid the dualisms both of psychological processes of consciousness and of physiological mechanisms. It is thus made explicit such that the unity of body and soul is not any arbitrarily arranged connection between “subject” and “object” but, rather, that it is enacted at every instant in the

Who reads Ethics of Alterity: Aisthetics of Existence (Performance Philosophy)?

Author

Jörg Sternagel, John R. J. Eyck

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781538178409

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, History, Philosophy