Aisthesis definition
Aisthesis means perception. We would like to extend the range of its meaning to include soci- eties’ capacities to perceive their own conditions and dispositions – those concerning their inner structures and their external, cultural, and natural contexts. A sociological interrogation of self-- conceptions of individuals within societies and of societies within the contexts they envisage is, thus, important for this project. However, “Aisthesis” is also an element in the word “aesthetics.” Literary and visual studies have an important role in discussing the topic: artists constantly – often critically or subversively – confront societies with the ways they conceptualize themselves, and with the disciplines and regimes regulating the human condition within them.
Examples of Aisthesis in a sentence
Neue Perspektiven auf Ontologie, Aisthesis und Ethik der stofflichen Welt, in press.
Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ trans.