Techné, Life-world, and Art
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Wen-Sheng Wang
Abstract
The notion of techné in Husserl’s phenomenology is related to his treatment of the three layers of the “teaching of craft” and the two layers of the science of “life-world.” The superior layer of both is of philosophical significance. Aristotle’s statement in ethics and metaphysics: techné is man-made, but can transit to spontaneity, and then to natural becoming, which manifests physis as the ultimate aim of his philosophical system, enlightens us to notice the following aspects in Husserl’s phenomenology. 1. Pure or formal ethics is of a high-level téchne in the philosophical sense. 2. The concept of life-world leads to transcendental phenomenology. 3. What Ideas II implies – as a technique the method of phenomenology tends to let the pure I and spiritual I as matters appear themselves by the natural attitude – could conduct us to understand the artistic aspect of Husserl’s philosophical theory.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Aesthetics and Life-World in German-Chinese Dialogue
- I: Kantian Aesthetics as a Starting Point – 从康德美学出发
- Symbolizing an Infinite World – Kant’s Analytic of Aesthetic Judgment, its Transcultural Dimension, and Jullien’s Critique of its Limits
- Aesthetic Cognition
- Aesthetic Ideality Versus Ontological Temporality
- Aesthetic Education in Confucius, Xunzi, and Kant
- Light is Space
- II: Aesthetics and Everyday Life – 美学和日常生活
- The Love of Beauty for the Good Life
- Art and Technology
- There Are More Things in (Life) World…
- The Rhythm of Action
- III: Living Aesthetics and Art – 生活美学和艺术
- Thinking and Poetry
- The Standard of Taste in David Hume’s Philosophy
- An Intercultural Interpretation on Heidegger’s Poet
- A Dreamed Form of Being
- Die Fadheit als Lebenskonzept in der chinesischen Kultur
- Information, Communication and Art
- IV: Aesthetics as Philosophy of Arts – 作为艺术哲学的美学
- Techné, Life-world, and Art
- Aesthetic Judgments and Their Cultural Grounding
- From Cézanne’s Doubt to Ai Weiwei’s Subversive Engagement
- Das Bild als Phänomen
- V: Varia and Miscellaneous – 杂文拾翠
- Perpetual Thriving
- Biobibliography
- Biobibliography
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Aesthetics and Life-World in German-Chinese Dialogue
- I: Kantian Aesthetics as a Starting Point – 从康德美学出发
- Symbolizing an Infinite World – Kant’s Analytic of Aesthetic Judgment, its Transcultural Dimension, and Jullien’s Critique of its Limits
- Aesthetic Cognition
- Aesthetic Ideality Versus Ontological Temporality
- Aesthetic Education in Confucius, Xunzi, and Kant
- Light is Space
- II: Aesthetics and Everyday Life – 美学和日常生活
- The Love of Beauty for the Good Life
- Art and Technology
- There Are More Things in (Life) World…
- The Rhythm of Action
- III: Living Aesthetics and Art – 生活美学和艺术
- Thinking and Poetry
- The Standard of Taste in David Hume’s Philosophy
- An Intercultural Interpretation on Heidegger’s Poet
- A Dreamed Form of Being
- Die Fadheit als Lebenskonzept in der chinesischen Kultur
- Information, Communication and Art
- IV: Aesthetics as Philosophy of Arts – 作为艺术哲学的美学
- Techné, Life-world, and Art
- Aesthetic Judgments and Their Cultural Grounding
- From Cézanne’s Doubt to Ai Weiwei’s Subversive Engagement
- Das Bild als Phänomen
- V: Varia and Miscellaneous – 杂文拾翠
- Perpetual Thriving
- Biobibliography
- Biobibliography
