Art, Self and Knowledge - Keith Lehrer

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Résumé :
This book argues that a special value of art is the way in which it uses conscious experience - the exemplars of aesthetic experience - to autonomously reconfigure how we conceive of our world and ourselves, ourselves in our world and our world in ourselves. Exemplar representation ties art and science, mind and body, self and world together in a dynamic loop reconfiguring them all as it reconfigures itself.

Biographie:
Keith Lehrer is Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona.

Lehrer is a rare aesthetician; he is both an artist and an epistemologist. Moreover, he brings a feminist perspective to the process of understanding and appreciating art: one that explores and exposes the self as neither disinterested nor dispassionate but rather intimately connected to (and transformed by) the sensory experience of a work of art. We are the creators of our own aesthetic destinies: if only we allow artworks in, to work their magic in our worlds. --Peg Zeglin Brand, Indiana University