{"product_id":"9781472592897","title":"Techne Theory : A New Language for Art","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eTechne Theory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Henry Staten\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and sculptures, and the art-maker as endowed with an inexplicable power of creation.  From the Greeks to the 18th century, art was conceived as \u003ci\u003etechne--\u003c\/i\u003ethe skill and know-how by which things and states of affairs are ordered.  \u003ci\u003eTechne Theory\u003c\/i\u003e shows how to use this concept to cut through the Romantic notion of art as a kind of magic by returning to the original sense of art as techne, the standpoint of the person who actually knows how to \u003ci\u003emake \u003c\/i\u003ea work of art. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnderstood as techne, art-making, like all other cultural accomplishments, is a form of work performed by an artisan who has inherited the know-how of previous generations of artisans.  Along the way, \u003ci\u003eTechne Theory \u003c\/i\u003ecuts through the humanist-structuralist impasse over the question of artistic agency and explains what 'form' really means.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Each of the diverse chapters makes for highly interesting (and for an analytic philosopher refreshingly different) reading … [For] analytic philosophers of aesthetics, who have for the most part neglected the topic of creativity, this book is interesting and creative in both style and content.” – \u003ci\u003eNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this learned, original, important, and always lively new study, Henry Staten moves today's heated and often sterile debate about aesthetic form to a new place-a place that is also (and in the best sense), an old place, newly inhabited. Staten rethinks Plato's and Aristotle's concepts of \u003ci\u003eeidos\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003etechne\u003c\/i\u003e in three ways: first, by bringing searching attention of a scholarly and critical kind to tensions and contradictions within the founding works themselves; second, by making those works respond to the very developments that they sponsored in both Romantic and modernist works; and third, by coordinating ancient Greek concepts of art, form, medium, making, and doing, with a posthumanist framework that reunites knowledge and know-how, theory and practice, \u003ci\u003eeidos\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ehyle\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003evates\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003epoietes\u003c\/i\u003e.  Anyone with any interest in the idea of form (and in the formation of ideas) should read this book. It changes the game we've been playing.” —\u003ci\u003e15\/01\/2019\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781472592897\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40698655441102,"sku":"9781472592897","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_2cd322d8-430a-4a0f-bd3a-a4eaae7c2d81.jpg?v=1640493659","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781472592897","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}