Creation and the Function of Art: Techn� Poiesis and the Problem of Aesthetics

Returning to the Greek understanding of art to rethink its capacities, Creation and the Function of Art focuses on the relationship between techné and phusis (nature). Moving away from the theoretical Platonism which dominates contemporary understandings of art, this book instead reinvigorates Aristotelian causation. Beginning with the Greek topos and turning to insights from philosophy, pure mathematics, psychoanalysis and biology, Jason Tuckwell re-problematises techné in functional terms. This book examines the deviations at play within logical forms, the subject, and upon phusis to better situate the role of the function in poiesis (art). In so doing, Tuckwell argues that art concerns a genuinely creative labour that cannot be resolved via an ontological or epistemological problem, but which instead constitutes an encounter with the problematic. As such, techné is shown to be a property of the living, of intelligence coupled to action, that not only enacts poiesis or art, but indicates a broader role for creative deviation in nature. Additional ISBNs1350112607, 1350010766, 9781350112605, 9781350010765Creation and the Function of Art: Techné, Poiesis and the Problem of Aesthetics 1st Edition is written by Jason Tuckwell and published by Bloomsbury Academic. ISBNs for Creation and the Function of Art are 9781350010789, 1350010782 and the print ISBNs are 9781350112605, 1350112607. Additional ISBNs include 1350112607, 1350010766, 9781350112605, 9781350010765.