{"product_id":"9781350010772","title":"Creation and the Function of Art: Techné, Poiesis and the Problem of Aesthetics","description":"Returning to the Greek understanding of art to rethink its capacities, \u003ci\u003eCreation and the Function of Art\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the relationship between \u003ci\u003etechné\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ephusis\u003c\/i\u003e (nature). Moving away from the theoretical Platonism which dominates contemporary understandings of art, this book instead reinvigorates Aristotelian causation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning with the Greek\u003ci\u003e topos\u003c\/i\u003e and turning to insights from philosophy, pure mathematics, psychoanalysis and biology, Jason Tuckwell re-problematises \u003ci\u003etechné\u003c\/i\u003e in functional terms. This book examines the deviations at play within logical forms, the subject, and upon \u003ci\u003ephusis\u003c\/i\u003e to better situate the role of the function in \u003ci\u003epoiesis \u003c\/i\u003e(art). In so doing, Tuckwell argues that art concerns a genuinely creative labour that cannot be resolved via an ontological or epistemological problem, but which instead constitutes an encounter with the problematic. As such,\u003ci\u003e techné\u003c\/i\u003e is shown to be a property of the living, of intelligence coupled to action, that not only enacts\u003ci\u003e poiesis\u003c\/i\u003e or art, but indicates a broader role for creative deviation in nature.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122581848304,"sku":"9781350010772","price":91.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781350010772_p0.jpg?v=1763711497","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781350010772","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}