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<p>This article examines the relationship between French phenomenology of art and metaphysics. More specifically, it highlights four points. Firstly, French phenomenological aesthetics is characterized by a certain ignorance of the renewal of artistic questioning initiated by Anglo-Saxon aesthetics. Secondly, French phenomenology of art is a metaphysics of art, which considers that works of art contain an ontological (cosmophanic or theophanic) revelation. Thirdly, French phenomenology of art is part of the “theological turn of French phenomenology”. Authors tend towards theology or “cosmotheology”. Fourthly, French phenomenology of art, which is a metaphysics of the sensible, possesses the theoretical means to think philosophically about conceptual art.</p>
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This article examines the relationship between French phenomenology of art and metaphysics. More specifically, it highlights four points. Firstly, French phenomenological aesthetics is characterized by a certain ignorance of the renewal of artistic questioning initiated by Anglo-Saxon aesthetics. Secondly, French phenomenology of art is a metaphysics of art, which considers that works of art contain an ontological (cosmophanic or theophanic) revelation. Thirdly, French phenomenology of art is part of the “theological turn of French phenomenology”. Authors tend towards theology or “cosmotheology”. Fourthly, French phenomenology of art, which is a metaphysics of the sensible, possesses the theoretical means to think philosophically about conceptual art.

French Phenomenology of Art and Metaphysics

Unité de recherche « Religion, Culture et Société » (EA 7403)

Phainomenon

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This article examines the relationship between French phenomenology of art and metaphysics. More specifically, it highlights four points. Firstly, French...

French Phenomenology of Art and Metaphysics

Published Online: Apr 28, 2024

Page range: 21 - 32

Received: Nov 01, 2023

Accepted: Dec 01, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2023-0009

Keywords
French phenomenology of art, Metaphysics, Conceptual Art, Jean-Luc Marion, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mikel Dufrenne

© 2023 Charles Bobant, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

French Phenomenology of Art and Metaphysics

Published Online: Apr 28, 2024

Page range: 21 - 32

Received: Nov 01, 2023

Accepted: Dec 01, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2023-0009

KeywordsFrench phenomenology of art, Metaphysics, Conceptual Art, Jean-Luc Marion, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mikel Dufrenne

© 2023 Charles Bobant, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
French phenomenology of art, Metaphysics, Conceptual Art, Jean-Luc Marion, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mikel Dufrenne