Distributing Worlds through Aesthetic Encounters

Distributing Worlds through Aesthetic Encounters
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
9 November 2017
Pages
176
ISBN
9781527500358

Distributing Worlds through Aesthetic Encounters

This collection consists of a selection of papers presented at the 2014 Uehiro Cross Currents Philosophy Conference, which focused on comparative philosophy, held at the University of Hawai'i in Manoa. The annual student conference opens up opportunities for dialogue across cultures and traditions and challenges the status quo of academic philosophy’s focus on Western thought alone, as exhibited in this book. Doing so has both aesthetic and political implications. In one way, to the extent that comparative philosophy outlines new possibilities for how the world can be distributed-how things can be thought of in their spatiotemporal embodiments-it is involved in artistic practice, the development of an aesthetic, a way of making sense of the sensible. In another way, to the extent that it demonstrates the equality of marginalized voices in its distribution and redistribution of sensibility, comparative philosophy takes on a political dimension. The chapters within point to this politico-aesthetic aspect of comparative philosophy and, indeed, of philosophy in general.

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