The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are

$18.95 at de Young Museum.

Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon—and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselves.In The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.Life supplies art with its raw materials, but art, Noë argues, remakes life by giving us resources to live differently. Our lives are permeated with the aesthetic. Indeed, human nature is an aesthetic…