Reversed Essentialism

Rob van Gerwen

doi:10.58519/aesthinv.v2i1.11972

Reversed Essentialism

Authors

Rob van Gerwen Utrecht University (Editor-in-Chief)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58519/aesthinv.v2i1.11972

Keywords:

definition of art, readymades, Plato, essentialism

Abstract

Treating exceptional cases as marks of an essence is as bad as essentialism. I suggest we understand art as a practice, not as something we could, or should find the eternally necessary and sufficient conditions of.

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Published

2017-12-29

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Vol. 2 No. 1

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