Practical aesthesis

IF 1 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Thesis Eleven Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI:10.1177/07255136241227675

Rob Shields, Nicholas Hardy

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Abstract

Aesthesis, the classical term for sensing and perceiving, is at the heart of innumerable problems that plague global society. The purpose of this article is to open a conversation on aesthesis. We survey the roots and relevance of aesthesis as a direct albeit contested relation and engagement with the world and with Others. From its pre-Socratic origins, aesthesis has been both a pragmatic, somatic concept, prompting a re-evaluation of the distinction between experience and abstraction. We trace its ongoing repression from Plato through ‘western’ theories of formal Aesthetics. Drawing on a relational interpretation of Protagoras’ aesthesis, we argue that modern pragmatists and radical empiricists, as well as more contemporary critics of the ‘colonization’ of aesthesis (Mignolo and Vasquez) by formal Aesthetics recognize and develop the relational and ethical aspects of aesthesis. We consider the role of the body, affect, and of the intangible or virtual qualities of aesthesis. The ethics of obligations (Weil) in the polis (Arendt) shows how aesthesis informs politics despite its repression in favour of moral and legal norms. We argue this is relevant to contemporary crises such as xenophobia and ecocidal climate warming.

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美学（Aesthesis）是感官和知觉的经典术语，是困扰全球社会的无数问题的核心。本文旨在开启一场关于美学的对话。美学是一种与世界和他人的直接关系和接触，尽管这种关系和接触存在争议，但我们对美学的根源和相关性进行了调查。从苏格拉底之前的起源开始，美学就一直是一个务实的、躯体的概念，促使人们重新评估经验与抽象之间的区别。我们追溯了从柏拉图到 "西方 "形式美学理论对它的压制。通过对普罗塔戈拉的 "美学 "进行关系诠释，我们认为，现代实用主义者和激进经验主义者，以及当代形式美学对美学 "殖民化 "的批评者（米尼奥洛和巴斯克斯）都承认并发展了美学的关系和伦理方面。我们考虑了身体的作用、情感以及美学的无形性或虚拟性。政体（阿伦特）中的义务伦理（魏尔）表明，尽管美学受到道德和法律规范的压制，但它如何为政治提供信息。我们认为，这与仇外心理和气候变暖等当代危机息息相关。

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Thesis Eleven SOCIOLOGY-

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1.40

自引率

12.50%

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期刊介绍： Established in 1996 Thesis Eleven is a truly international and interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal. Innovative and authorative the journal encourages the development of social theory in the broadest sense by consistently producing articles, reviews and debate with a central focus on theories of society, culture, and politics and the understanding of modernity. The purpose of this journal is to encourage the development of social theory in the broadest sense. We view social theory as both multidisciplinary and plural, reaching across social sciences and liberal arts and cultivating a diversity of critical theories of modernity across both the German and French senses of critical theory.