Open AccessTwórczość jako adaptacja? Sztuka zagrożona wyginięciem…
Author(s) -
Agnieszka Bandura
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
studia philosophica wratislaviensia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1895-8001
DOI - 10.19195/1895-8001.16.1.3
Subject(s) - universalism , bricolage , criticism , pleasure , aesthetics , adaptation (eye) , function (biology) , philosophy , epistemology , sociology , art , psychology , literature , evolutionary biology , biology , neuroscience , politics , political science , law
In this paper I try to defend contemporary art (avant-garde and post-modern) from the criticism of evolutionary aesthetics. Referring to selected theses put forward by Jerzy Luty in his book Art as Adaptation. Universalism in Evolutionary Aesthetics (2018), I propose an alternative to them in the form of philosophical anthropology (Gehlen) and evolutionary theory considered as bricolage (Jacob). Above all, I challenge the hypotheses of the evolutionarily and biologically adaptive function of art and the condition of pleasure it must necessarily provide.