Jay M. Bernstein (Livres)

Jay M. Bernstein Livres

J.M. Bernstein est une voix de premier plan en philosophie, concentrant son travail sur l'éthique, la théorie critique, l'esthétique et la philosophie de l'art. Il explore les liens complexes entre l'art, la société et l'expérience subjective, offrant des aperçus profonds de la condition humaine. Le style distinctif de Bernstein combine une exploration théorique rigoureuse avec une analyse pointue d'idées philosophiques fondamentales. Son écriture examine de manière critique l'aliénation esthétique et les dimensions éthiques de la production artistique contemporaine.

The fate of art

320pages
12 heures de lecture

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This original and wide-ranging book, now available in paperback, is a major contribution to contemporary philosophy. Bernstein focuses on the work of four key thinkers - Kant, Heidegger, Derrida and Adorno - and provides a powerful new interpretation of their writings on art, aesthetics and politics.Bernstein argues that our experience of art today is conditioned by the loss of the truth-function of art: with the growth of modern science and technological reason, art is relegated to a separate and autonomous domain of the aesthetic. This condition of 'aesthetic alienation' - the raging discord between art and truth - is one of the most perspicuous signs of the fragmentation of modernity.Aesthetic alienation is challenged in differing ways by modern Continental philosophers like Heidegger, Derrida and Adorno. Bernstein shows how each of these philosophers uses the experience of art and the discourse of aesthetics to criticize the fragmentation of modernity. He examines in detail their responses to aesthetic alienation and raises a range of fundamental questions concerning the relations between art, philosophy and politics in modern societies.