Intellectualism and the field of aesthetics: the return of the repressed?

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https://doi.org/10.51359/2357-9986.2022.256175

Keywords:

aesthetics, aesthetic experience, art cognitivism, intellectualism

Abstract

The essay seeks to investigate the theoretical changes in Pierre Bourdieu'sconceptions on aesthetics, in particular his skepticism towards aesthetic ex-periences as appropriate means of understanding art. To this end, it starts in-troducing the problem through a resumption of the status of experience itselfand, particularly, of the aesthetic experience, to an analysis of its place andvalue within Bourdieu's conceptions both in his youthful writings (The loveof art and Rules of art) and in those of his maturity. The apparent contradic-tion between a more flexible aesthetic cognitivism that welcomes aesthetic experience in youth and a stricter one that excludes it and gives way to a sci-entific systematization of art in the mature writings is addressed by contex-tualizing Bourdieu's thought in the intellectual field of the 1970s.

Author Biographies

Richard Shusterman, Florida Atlantic University

Professor de Filosofia e Inglês, bem como Diretor do Centro do Corpo, Mente e Cultura, da Florida Atlantic University (EUA).

Guilherme Mautone, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Tradutor do texto (Intellectualism and the field of aesthetics: the return of the repressed?) e Professor convidado na Casamundi Cultura.

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2022-10-27

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Vol. 49 No. 4 (2022): Filosofia e Arte Contemporânea

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