Art, philosophy, and non-standard aesthetics

Abstract

Aesthetics has been frequently viewed by the metaphysical tradition as a disruptive supplement to its ideal purity, always in some sense secondary and inadequate in relation to its a priori categories. Yet simultaneously, these same metaphysics seem to actually draw upon art in order to illustrate such a priori facta, even though the latter are then posited in a transcendent manner such that they may legislate over this aesthetic realm. This is the claim made by François Laruelle, who argues that philosophy has a tendency to model itself upon artistic forms of knowledge and practice, but does so in such a manner that these models are then disparaged or even spurned entirely in order to illustrate the apparent universality of the philosophical modality of thought. It is through Laruelle’s own project of non-philosophy then, he suggests, that we might escape this philosophical circle, and the reversible causality whereby philosophy uses art in order to demonstrate the validity of its own transcendent categories in apprehending the real.

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ORCID for Thomas Sutherland: orcid.org/0000-0003-1538-7044

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