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Kann man „schreckliche menschliche Leidenschaften“ sehen?

Der Ausdruck der Wahrnehmung und die anthropologische Aussagekraft der Kunst
  • Magnus Schlette
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Abstract

Human sense perception has a special meaning for anthropological research because it bears witness to the inextricable entanglement of body, mind, and world. Perception situates an individual in his immediate environment while allowing him agenuine awareness of his being in the world.The essayexplores the potential of visual arts to enlarge our knowledge about the key role perception plays for the awareness of our entanglement with the world. It proceeds by presentingVincent van Gogh’s Night Café as aparadigm case for the argument that art canmake us see how we make the world visible through our acts of perception. It thereby puts forward a phenomenological approach to image theory as against a semiotic approach. The point of the argument is to mobilize the study of art for defending a perceptivist account of our meaning-laden interrelations as embodied beings with the world we live in. Art is a fundamental source for the philosophical study of embodiment.

Abstract

Human sense perception has a special meaning for anthropological research because it bears witness to the inextricable entanglement of body, mind, and world. Perception situates an individual in his immediate environment while allowing him agenuine awareness of his being in the world.The essayexplores the potential of visual arts to enlarge our knowledge about the key role perception plays for the awareness of our entanglement with the world. It proceeds by presentingVincent van Gogh’s Night Café as aparadigm case for the argument that art canmake us see how we make the world visible through our acts of perception. It thereby puts forward a phenomenological approach to image theory as against a semiotic approach. The point of the argument is to mobilize the study of art for defending a perceptivist account of our meaning-laden interrelations as embodied beings with the world we live in. Art is a fundamental source for the philosophical study of embodiment.

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