FROM EVERYDAY AESTHETICS TO RETHINKING EXISTENCE. THE POSSIBLE DIALOGUE BETWEEN JEAN LUC NANCY’S ONTOLOGY AND THE AESTHETICS OF THE EVERYDAY

• Authors: Málaga Natasha Luna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

My aim is to argue that Jean Luc Nancy’s conception of Being can be particularly valuable for underlining Everyday Aesthetics’ specificity and thus for revealing its philosophical worth, one that I believe is overshadowed when treating Everyday Aesthetics solely as an extension of traditional aesthetics. Nancy’s ontology is nevertheless rooted in the Heideggerian perspective of Being, and is thus seemingly opposite to an Anglo-American approach, which is the sort of ground that Everyday Aesthetics seems to rely on. This paper will be divided into three parts: first, I discuss what separates Everyday Aesthetics from the European approach – Heidegger included – and why this rupture is legitimate. Secondly, I present what I consider to be the strongest philosophical points that Everyday Aesthetics puts forward. Finally, I show why Nancy’s work, in its specific way of challenging Western thought, can make a considerable contribution to Everyday Aesthetics.

Keywords

EN

EVERYDAY AESTHETICS; JEAN-LUC NANCY; ONTOLOGY

• Publisher: Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia ad Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture
• Journal: ESPES
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 88 – 102

Contributors

author

Málaga Natasha Luna

• Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, Place du Cardinal Mercier 14 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5866458