Den amerikanske filosof Mark Johnson kommer på Kunst og Identitet-symposium på Københavns Universitet. Han er nok mest kendt for at forfatte Metaphors We Live By og Philosophy In The Flesh. Gældende for begge værker handler omkring kropsligheden afgørende betydning for vores sprog og tænkning.
Symposiet her stiller skarpt på kunsts forbindelse til identitet og selvudvikling, set fra et filosofisk og psykologisk perspektiv.
Det er nødvendigt at registrere sig. Det koster 50,- for studerende og 150,- for andre. Dette inkluderer lidt forfriskning. Send en mail til registration.art@psy.ku.dk med dit navn, adresse og tilknytning. Sidste frist 30. april!
This symposium focuses on art in relation to questions of identity and self-development, and includes art’s implications for philosophical and psychological traditions. Philosophy has often searched for the functions of art in rational and general systems, while psychology, with its more empirical nature and much shorter history, holds out the possibility of creating an aesthetics based upon actual, lived experience. Although many philosophers reject the reduc tion of art to its subjective potential for experience, philosophical aesthetics contains several assumptions about the psyche, both in relation to psychic structures as well as to psychic functions. Within scientific psychology, partly delimited as more of an empirical endeavor than philosophy, aesthetic experience has been granted much lesser import and has comprised less of psychology’s self-identity. Accordingly, the central questions of this symposium are: How is art linked to identity and self-development, seen from philosophical and psychological perspectives? What are the borders for these fields of inquiry when it comes to experiences with art? And how can philosophy and psychology inform each other in this mutual quest for understanding the functions of art in relation to questions of identity and self-development?
