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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

Data publikacji: 28 kwi 2024

Zakres stron: 21 - 32

Otrzymano: 01 lis 2023

Przyjęty: 01 gru 2023

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

Słowa kluczowe
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

Data publikacji: 28 kwi 2024

Zakres stron: 21 - 32

Otrzymano: 01 lis 2023

Przyjęty: 01 gru 2023

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

Słowa kluczoweFrench 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.

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