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493‘That They Point Is All There Is to It’: Wittgenstein’s Romanticist AestheticsEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 58 (1). 2021.Why is aesthetics important to Wittgenstein? What, according to him, is the function of the aesthetic? My answer consists of three parts: first, I argue that Wittgenstein finds himself in an aporia of normative consciousness – that is to say, a problem with regard to our awareness of the world in terms of its relation to a norm. Second, I argue that the function of Wittgenstein’s aesthetic writings is to deal with this aporia. Third, through a comparison with Friedrich Schlegel’s writings on all…Read more
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335Can art become theoretical?Internationales Jahrbuch für Philosophische Anthropologie 11 (1): 109-126. 2021.Art-science, as its name suggests, combines art with science. The idea of combining art and science raises the question whether the outcome, art-scientific works, can succeed against a standard properly belonging to them. In other words: can there be such a thing as an art-scientific work, or do such works merely belong to either art or science while superficially seeming to belong to the other sphere as well? Surprisingly perhaps, these concerns overlap with a chief point of contention as regar…Read more
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40Personal autonomy & its aesthetic preconditions: essays on aesthetic understanding & freedomDissertation, University of Essex. 2020.Becoming autonomous is a process of coming to realise oneself in shared, socio-historical practices. There can be no self before these practices, but their existence is no guarantee for selfhood either: one can be heteronomous through one's successful participation in various practices if that participation is not a genuine expression of one's own personhood. This means that the sheer capability to participate in the practices in which one finds oneself is not sufficient for personal autonomy. S…Read more
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37Editorial ‘the Value of Disorientation’Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 23 (3-4): 495-499. 2020.
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14Escapisme als kunstpolitiek: de propaganda van Black Panther (2018)Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 115 (4): 439-456. 2023.Escapism as artistic politics: propaganda in Black Panther (2018) Escapism is omnipresent in contemporary mass art, even though it has a bad reputation. This article traces that reputation back to a pragmatist conviction that art should give expression to experiences, and morals, from everyday practical life. Through a philosophical conversation with two pragmatist aestheticians, W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul C. Taylor, and an art-critical discussion of an escapist film, Black Panther (2018), I provid…Read more
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