Tiziana Andina

Thomas Dreier

Digital images raise ethical issues that have so far received only little attention. The discrete pixels of digital images can be freely combined. Compared to the dissemination of analog images the net enables dis-proportionately greater control over how digital images are to be distributed. As of today, the consequences for contemporary visual communication as well as for the cultural visual memory are all but clear. Can there be an applied ethics of digital images at all? What could be the content of such a normative ethics? And what is the relationship between ethics and the law of digital images? This volume brings together the contributions to an interdisciplinary German-Italian conference at Villa Vigoni, sponsored by the DFG.

The Issue of Images

Digital Ethics

Erica Onnis

Wang Guangyi, one of the stars of the new wave of Chinese art, has artistically addressed major philosophical trends in Western philosophy while drawing on Taoism, Marxism and Maoism. By bringing together a team of experts in the philosophy of art to discuss his work, The Philosophy and Art of Wang Guangyi presents the first philosophical exploration of Wang's art, his thought and his analysis of Chinese society. From his use of words in images to his reference to the classics of Western painting, contributors set Wang's work against key questions in contemporary art. As well as answering what makes the language of pop art successful, they examine whether art and its history have come to an end, as Hegel posited, and if it is possible or even necessary to rework a new narrative for the history of contemporary art. The Philosophy and Art of Wang Guangyi marks an important contribution to understanding the background, work and ideas of a 21st-century political artist outside the West.

The Philosophy and Art of Wang Guangyi

Digitale Bilder werfen ethische Fragen auf, die bislang kaum Aufmerksamkeit gefunden haben. Die diskreten Pixel digitaler Bilder lassen sich frei kombinieren. Zugleich ermöglicht das Netz eine im Vergleich zur Verbreitung analoger Bilder ungleich größere Kontrolle. Die Folgen für die visuelle Gegenwartskommunikation wie auch für das kulturelle visuelle Gedächtnis sind erst in Umrissen erkennbar. Kann es überhaupt eine angewandte Ethik digitaler Bilder geben? Welchen Inhalt könnte eine solche normative Ethik haben? Und schließlich: In welchem Verhältnis stehen Ethik und das Recht digitaler Bilder zueinander? Der Band versammelt die Beiträge einer von der DFG geförderten interdisziplinären deutsch-italienischen Tagung in der Villa Vigoni. Mit Beiträgen von Prof. Gianmaria Ajani, Prof. Tiziana Andina, Dr. Eva-Maria Bauer, Dr. Davide Dal Sasso, Prof. Dr. Thomas Dreier, PD Dr. Johannes Eichenhofer, Prof. Maurizio Ferraris, Prof. Dr. Christophe Geiger, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Werner Gephart, Olivia Hägle, Prof. Wybo Houkes, Dr. Lisa Käde, Prof. Massimo Leone, Lorenz Müller-Tamm, Dr. Eberhard Ortland, Prof. Dr. Benjamin Raue, Ass. Prof. Cosetta Saba, Prof. Dr. Reinold Schmücker, Ass. Prof. Enrico Terrone und Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich.

The issue of images

“Arthur Danto is a philosopher with a system, whose much discussed aesthetic theory cannot be understood adequately without grasping how it is embedded in his analysis of action, historiography and knowledge. Although some Americans have written about his system, we have as yet too little comprehension of how it appears from the vantage point of Europe. This monograph by a gifted young Italian scholar, which will change that situation. [It] presents a remarkably original, highly sympathetic perspective, one that will surely influence debate in her native country, in the United States, and everywhere that Danto is now being read.” —David Carrier, Champney Family Professor, Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Institute of Art, USA “Tiziana Andina’s Arthur Danto: Philosopher of Pop, written in a friendly and enthusiastic style that is quite suitable to its subject, should do much to enliven debate about the main themes of Danto’s philosophy of art. Those themes are here, and for the first time, both viewed as a whole and placed in the context of Danto’s broader philosophical commitments, whose metaphysical, epistemological, psychological and linguistic underpinnings are made clear in Andina’s lucid text.” —Jerrold Levinson, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, USA

Philosopher of Pop

Arthur Danto

If societies, like institutions, are built to endure, then the bond that exists between generations must be considered. Constructing a framework to establish a philosophy of future generations, Tiziana Andina explores the factors that make it possible for a society to reproduce over time. Andina's study of the diachronic structure of societies considers the never-ending passage of generations, as each new generation comes to form a part of the new social fabric and political model. Her model draws on the anthropologies offered by classical political philosophies such as Hobbes and Machiavelli and the philosophies of power as discussed by Nietzsche. She confronts the ethics and function of this fundamental relationship, examines the role of transgenerationality in the formation and endurance of Western democracies and recognizes an often overlooked problem: each new generation must form part of social and political arrangements designed for them by the generations that came before.

The Structure and Dynamics of Transgenerationality

A Philosophy for Future Generations

This book explores the complex domain of social reality, asking what this reality is, how it is composed and what its dynamics are in both theoretical and practical terms. Through the examination of some of the most important contemporary theories of social ontology, the book discusses the fundamentals of the discipline and lays the foundations for its development in the political sphere. By analyzing the notion of State and the redesign of ontology, the author argues in favor of a realist conception of the State and shows the reasons why this promotes a better understanding of the dynamics of power and the actualization of a greater justice between generations. This book captures the relationship between different generations within the same political context, and presents it as a necessary condition for the re-definition of the concepts of State and meta-State.

An Ontology for Social Reality

"'What is art?' is one of the classic questions that philosophy has addressed over the ages, from the ancients to today. Taking as its starting point debates over the various definitions of art found in history, this article presents and discusses some of the major theories offered by both the analytic and continental traditions. It then looks at the theoretical reasons that led twentieth-century philosophy to reopen the question of definition, and in many cases inquire into the ontology of art itself. Finally, a series of considerations are addressed to help shift the problem of definition onto a new plane, one that is able to respond to the challenges of the performing and participatory arts, which more than any other form of art present particularly unconventional ontologies."--Page 4 of cover.

The Question of Definition Reloaded

What is Art?

In this volume edited by Tiziana Andina and the contributors addresses some of the most compelling philosophical questions today, offering an exhaustive companion to Western philosophy through the past fifty years that bridges the Analytical Continental divide.

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