Philosophy in Digital Culture: Images and the Aestheticization of the Public Intellectual’s Narratives

• Authors: Skowroński Krzysztof Piotr
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present paper deals with the problem of the digital-culture-public-philosophy as a possible response of those philosophers who see the need to face the challenges of the Internet and the visual culture that constitutes an important part of the Internet cultural space. It claims that this type of philosophy would have to, among many other things, modify and broaden philosophers’ traditional mode of communication. It would have to expand its textual, or mainly text-related, communication mode into the aesthetic and visual communication mode. More precisely, philosophers would have to learn how to aestheticize and visualize their ethical (epistemic, ontological, social) narratives by using some digital tools – YouTube clips for example.

Keywords

EN

philosophy; digital culture; Internet; narratives; aestheticization; ethics; stoic pragmatism

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 23-37

Dates

published

2020-04-15

Contributors

author

Skowroński Krzysztof Piotr

• Institute of Philosophy, University of Opole

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2020.0003