Künstlerisches Handeln als ästhetisches Sorgen?

[Translate to English:] Künstlerisches Handeln als ästhetisches Sorgen?

Gegenwärtige kunstphilosophische und handlungstheoretische Positionen im Anschluss an G. W. F. Hegel und John Dewey

Florence Borggrefe

This dissertation project seeks to develop a theory of artistic action as care. It draws on the aesthetic work of John Dewey as well as recent research at the intersection of art and care ethics (Saito 2022; Thompson 2023) to analyze the caring dimension of contemporary artistic practices from an action-theoretical perspective. I argue that caring and artistic action not only share structural similarities, but that a pragmatist conception of artistic action – brought into dialogue with current artistic practices – reveals that art itself can be understood as a form of care.

  • Florence Borggrefe is a philosopher and literary scholar. As a research associate at the Research Focus Aesthetics at the ZHdK, she works on pragmatist aesthetics and action theory, feminist care ethics and contemporary artistic practices dealing with care. She holds a doctoral scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation and is a member of the doctoral program «Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices» at swissuniversities as well as a doctoral candidate at Leuphana University Lüneburg. In the autumn semester of 2024, she was invited to be a visiting scholar at the University of Graz. She studied History, Philosophy and German Studies (M.Ed.) at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Stuttgart.

    • Graduating University: Universität Lüneburg

    • Supervision: Prof. Dr. Judith Siegmund, ZHdK

    • Co-supervision: Prof. Dr. Roberto Nigro, Universität Lüneburg