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Document Details : Title: Over de wereldvreemdheid van de kunst Author(s): LIJSTER, Thijs Journal: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie Volume: 86 Issue: 1 Date: 2024 Pages: 107-114 DOI: 10.2143/TVF.86.1.3293626 Abstract : In her essay collection Wereldvreemdheid (2000), Patricia de Martelaere analyzes contemporary society as being simultaneously fully rationalized and ruled by emotions. These seemingly contradicting diagnoses emerge from her critical assessment of Western individualism, and of the assumption that, as knowing subjects, we can understand and identify the surrounding world. In my essay, I discuss how De Martelaere finds antidotes to this individualism in Taoism, psychoanalysis, and philosophers like Hume and Nietzsche. I argue, however, that due to the public nature of the aesthetic experience, only her discussion of the radical strangeness and ‘unworldliness’ of art forms an adequate response to our alleged familiarity with the world. |
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