THE WORK OF ART AS FICTIO PERSONAE
THE WORK OF ART AS FICTIO PERSONAE
Author(s): Miloš ĆipranićSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Aesthetics, Rhetoric
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: fictitious person; art; personification; rhetoric; law; aesthetics; Miguel Tamen; Maurizio Ferraris
Summary/Abstract: The article investigates how and why we treat works of art as persons. From rhetoric to jurisprudence, various disciplines have dealt with the practice of attributing human features and abilities to insensate objects. The agency of works of art acting as fictitious persons is not only recognized at the level of aesthetic experience, but also outside it, because there have been cases in which they were subject to legal liability. Personhood is not reducible to individual human beings. However, since works of art lack senses and consciousness, there is ultimately a limit to the personifying metaphor.
Journal: Filozofija i društvo
- Issue Year: 31/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 242-259
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English