Presentation: "AESTHETIC PHILOSOPHY AS MODE OF EXISTENCE"

Abstract

This is a presentation text for the Dossier Aesthetics and Philosophy of African Art for the Problemata International Journal of Philosophy. It articulates the idea of Aesthetic existence with human existence itself, since for the Yoruba the human being is created as a work of art endowed with beauty and capable of creating and recreating such an act. It resolves that without Aesthetic appreciation and creation, life diminishes in meaning until it ceases to exist as an intellectually productive one, just as distance from the idea of beauty increases distance and diminishes positive affect, it destines an extensive body, that is, with its perceptions and spiritualities and capacities, to the place of the non-human and, therefore, to a world that considers the non-human as an expendable other, to violence. It seeks to show that the dossier brings African and African Diasporic Aesthetics that coexist with us culturally. It expresses the idea of sankofa, in the sense that it understands the need to consult ancestral history to formulate other models of philosophizing, demonstrating such models in the lines elaborated by the authors.