Art as Human Practice

Georg W. Bertram is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Nathan Ross is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University, USA.

[This] book builds an important bridge between contemporary Continental and Anglo-American philosophy of art, as Bertram rather seamlessly discusses figures who rarely meet under the same cover … [It] should provoke thoughtful discussion on whether and/or to what extent art should be viewed in a less object-centered manner, as a reflective practice.

• IntroductionChapter 1: A Critique of the Autonomy ParadigmChapter 2: From Kant to Hegel and BeyondChapter 3: Autonomy as Self-Referential Constitution: Art as Practical ReflectionChapter 4: Art as Practice of FreedomBibliographyIndex