Tag: Philosophy

  • W24 II: On art, empathy & responsibility – and Adolescence again

    W24 II: On art, empathy & responsibility – and Adolescence again

    Since my last blog, my mind has kept turning over some of the issues that the Çalışkan article and the Netflix series Adolescence raised for me. After discussing what Bakhtin’s views of cognition mean for ethics, Çalışkan goes on to discuss empathy and the related act of creating art. For Bakhtin since humans are such…

  • W24: On ethics, responsibility – and Adolescence 

    W24: On ethics, responsibility – and Adolescence 

    This week, ahead of Marsha’s presentation on her work, she suggested we read Ethical Aesthetics /Aesthetic Ethics: The Case of Bakhtin by Prof. Dr. Sevda Çalışkan. The reading expanded on several lines of thought that have intrigued me for a while, so I wanted to record it here. I’ve long been interested in ideas of…