No. 66 (2023): Mayo-agosto
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Aesthetics Beyond Anthropocentrism: The Evolutionary Perspective as a Meeting Point Between Ethical and Aesthetic Analysis in the Philosophy of Jean-Marie Schaeffer

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  • E. Joaquín Suárez-Ruíz
E. Joaquín Suárez-Ruíz
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v660.2168

Published 2023-04-11

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Suárez-Ruíz, E. J. (2023). Aesthetics Beyond Anthropocentrism: The Evolutionary Perspective as a Meeting Point Between Ethical and Aesthetic Analysis in the Philosophy of Jean-Marie Schaeffer. Tópicos, Revista De Filosofía, (66), 393–418. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v660.2168

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Abstract

The writings of Jean-Marie Schaeffer stand out among those of other French philosophers because they not only emphasize the relevance of the evolutionary approach within philosophical reflection, generally completely discredited in intellectual circles linked to continental philosophy, but because they introduce it into aesthetic research, which is even less frequent among philosophers in general. In Schaeffer’s research, this approach makes explicit the existence of a meeting point between, on the one hand, the philosophical critique of anthropocentrism and animal ethics, and, on the other hand, aesthetic analysis. As I argue in this paper, in light of Shaeffer’s reflections some important implications of the theory of biological evolution in the problematization of the assumption of a human moral superiority within philosophical aesthetics become evident.

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