{"product_id":"the-entanglement-how-art-and-philosophy-make-us-what-we-are-9780691188812","title":"The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon--and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselves\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Entanglement\u003c\/i\u003e, philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLife supplies art with its raw materials, but art, Noë argues, remakes life by giving us resources to live differently. Our lives are permeated with the aesthetic. Indeed, human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon, and art--our most direct and authentic way of engaging the aesthetic--is the truest way of understanding ourselves. All this suggests that human nature is not a natural phenomenon. Neither biology, cognitive science, nor AI can tell a complete story of us, and we can no more pin ourselves down than we can fix or settle on the meaning of an artwork. Even more, art and philosophy are the means to set ourselves free, at least to some degree, from convention, habit, technology, culture, and even biology. In making these provocative claims, Noë explores examples of entanglement--in artworks and seeing, writing and speech, and choreography and dancing--and examines a range of scientific efforts to explain the human. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChallenging the notions that art is a mere cultural curiosity and that philosophy has been outmoded by science, \u003ci\u003eThe Entanglement\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new way of thinking about human nature, the limits of natural science in understanding the human, and the essential role of art and philosophy in trying to know ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlva No?\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a member of the Center for New Media, the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and the Program in Critical Theory. His many books include \u003ci\u003eStrange Tools: Art and Human Nature \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLearning to Look: Dispatches from the Art World.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50618522435858,"sku":"9780691188812","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3fd1fac2-3bac-41c5-a598-ce72ac541111.jpg?v=1744222430","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-entanglement-how-art-and-philosophy-make-us-what-we-are-9780691188812","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}