TY - JOUR
AU - Spaid, Sue
AB - 340 | BOOK REVIEWS him, presentation and reception are no less entangled, The Entanglement: How Art and a view that overlooks the asymmetries between the Philosophy Make Us What We Are two. It seems that what we neglect, exclude or fail to ALVA NOË grasp simply remains unavailable to ‘our world’, as if Princeton University Press, 2023. pp. 271. £22.00 each of us lives in whatever world we make available (HBK). to ourselves. However, this cannot be so. Taking a cue from Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s As with Alva Noë’s earlier books, his facile style claim, ‘nothing is more difficult than knowing what prompts our nod, as if to say, ‘oh yeah, I knew that’. we see’ (p. 161), Noë is the rare contemporary p - hi Even if he mentions something we once considered, losopher who admits to the difficulty of perception. no one has bothered to describe it so vividly. Through He writes, ‘describing what we see is immensely The Entanglement’s twelve chapters, we explore at complicated and requires a negotiation; somehow, least a dozen entanglements; noticeably: 1) life and remarkably, we may fail even to notice this’ (p. 46). art, 2) human nature and human invention, 3- ) move 
TI - The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
JF - British Journal of Aesthetics
DO - 10.1093/aesthj/ayad039
DA - 2024-03-02
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-entanglement-how-art-and-philosophy-make-us-what-we-are-d2GWAf11Ee
SP - 340
EP - 342
VL - 65
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -