Encyclopedia and Cosmology: Rethinking Aesthetics with R. Ruyer, A.N. Whitehead and G. Simondon

Can aesthetics play a privileged role within today’s en­cyclopedia of knowledge? The present contribution is centered around this question, which calls into question the very status of the discipline, which has always oscillated between analysis of sensible knowledge and of the work of art/beauty. T...

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2022
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Universidad Antonio Nariño
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Repositorio UAN
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oai:repositorio.uan.edu.co:123456789/10711
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https://revistas.uan.edu.co/index.php/nodo/article/view/1446
https://repositorio.uan.edu.co/handle/123456789/10711
Palabra clave:
enciclopedia
estetica
percezione
Ruyer
Simondon
Whitehead
estética
percepción
encyclopedia
aesthetics
perception
Ruyer
Simondon
Whitehead
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Summary:Can aesthetics play a privileged role within today’s en­cyclopedia of knowledge? The present contribution is centered around this question, which calls into question the very status of the discipline, which has always oscillated between analysis of sensible knowledge and of the work of art/beauty. Through a series of insights elaborated by authors such as Raymond Ruyer, Alfred North Whitehead and Gilbert Simondon, it is intended to rethink the sensible root of aesthetics by extending it to reality as a whole. If every aspect of reality finds its foundation in a “diffuse” feeling, aesthetics can serve as the basis and cosmological synthesis of the encyclo­pedia of knowledge: the Ruyerian idea of an “survol ab­solu”, the Whiteheadian concept of “prehension” and the Simondonian conception of cybernetics as an “allag­matic” seem to redefine aesthetics as a true cosmology of contemporaneity.