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May 21, 2010 announcement of the next coffee philosophy

the next Cafe Philo on Friday 19/03/2010 at 21h.
In the room in the basement of the bistro Course
04/95/21/44/75

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minutes of the evening philo du12/02/10

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coffee philosophy of February 12, 2010:


We all found in the vaulted room with coffee during this time, the presence of many Ferrari Jerome students. Indeed, some (six) of its students will participate in a "controversy" or "philosophical argument" in Corte April 7 against a team of Bastia.
a certain pressure, friendly, however, hangs over them since last year, the team of Jerome, who won the event.
The meeting this evening and the next meeting will, inter alia, training rounds where the boxing gloves will be replaced by the confrontation of ideas and concepts
In this perspective, Jerome advises his students and the all those present to read "The Art of Being Right" by Arthur Schopenhauer.

The theme of the day, or rather of the evening was "The Work of Art Has a utility? .

He was not chosen by chance completely because the program is considered a philosophical text on the Art of Shakespeare. In addition, the subject provides for discussion ... and, as was seen during the evening on a controversial and contentious.


Jerome, opening, launches some tracks and trying to set some benchmarks that should guide the discussions.

The subject comes to question what a work of art. Indeed, the definition in every period of art exchange. This domain is not predefined in aesthetic philosophy. A work of art is not subject to practical use in modern times. Previously, the artwork was used for religious worship and was not of value in itself. The artwork can also be of practical or aesthetic.

Since the early nineteenth century, including Hegel and Schopenhauer, the design function of art has evolved. It assigns a dignity, a mission of uncovering the truth. Some of the sacred work of art is found in Hegel.

Jerome to show, if indeed it were needed, that nothing is simple in philosophy evokes a text in which Nietzsche wondered what is meant by "Art for Art." For him, it is nonsense because Art is always a fixed goal, a goal.

The evening was very rich and full of conviction affirmed discussions with the force of eloquence. I'll try to recreate the flavor and fragrance trying, although I know it's a challenge, to synthesize them. Let those who feel that I was too cold that night to have felt a sense of involvement forgive me ... .... and make corrections on the blog from their reactions and comments.




Art expression of a message:

Art expresses a message. Cathedrals, for example, are an expression of love for God.
The works of painters like Van Gogh or Toulouse-Lautrec, is the message of their feelings.

Art is always the expression of something like freedom of the individual.

The message of the work of Art may be transmitted even if the artist does not know the social codes or academic canons. Artists "naive" does not know the codes but they still convey a message.

Art is an attempt to improve the real:

Art is a sublimation of reality, it would move towards the utopia so it would improve the real.

Jerome acknowledges what was said but expressed his personal conviction that one can not justify the work of art by the mere fact that an artist expresses his feelings. In addition, the work art is still far from expressing the freedom of the individual. The art of politics as the Soviet realist art expresses more of a choking person enslaved to a system that freedom of the artist.

A participant objected to Jerome that an artist has been able to represent the actual leaving is making Masterpieces. The art could be a decoder that we can not see.


The art is of the order codes:

There are two conceptions of a work of art. The first is a subjective expression a personal emotion of the artist who meets the emotion of the beholder.
The second would be about codes because to appreciate a work of art, a frame of reference is necessary and sometimes even an education in art.
In cooking, the taste buds do the sorting and instantly discern the good from the not so good but to enjoy a wine, wine culture education is needed.
But sometimes, once you learn to appreciate an art connoisseur, we love less. The magic of a piece of music does not always win the analysis litter and its decomposition into notes.
To love a work of art, it takes a sociological consensus.

Jerome said that, for Bourdieu, there is a sociological approach to the work of art.
tastes have sociological value. They are conditioned by social class to which it belongs, which leads to a relativization of the value of works.
For Jerome, this analysis may be true for modern art but does not apply to other works of art.
The sociological value of a work does not necessarily reflect what it is.



Art is a need for the artist

Beyond reasons related to goals or ideals that follow art, he would report to a compelling need for the Artist. Jean Paul Sartre assigned to art and writing a redemptive function. Why always look for hidden meanings, the artist may be music because it amuses him? someone said.

Jerome considers that the expression of emotion is unusual and does not in itself useful for others by this formula stripping "What-tone fuck the manifestation of our emotions? .



One participant replied that, as Montaigne said, "Every man carries within him the image of the human condition." Therefore, every emotion or feeling is not so singular and so they can "talk" to all.

Usefulness of a work of art

The work of art would be useful if it aims at universality.
Art would be about transcendence.

One participant cited the case of the Eiffel Tower, much maligned in its infancy, is now considered a work of art no doubt. And yet it was also useful to host wireless antennas which partly explains its construction.
History of Art would have stopped to Marcel Duchamp in the early 1910s.

The work of art must exist

This may seem a truism, but the first condition of a work of art is that it must exist and persist in its existence.
For example, Serge Gainsbourg who destroyed his paintings, this does nothing and nobody can contemplate.

The work of art must not only exist but be broadcast

Thanks to the Internet, works of art are spread widely and can be seen by all.
It is true that in ancient times, statues adorning the exterior of the temples were intended, too, to be seen by all.

Art and timelessness

The characteristic of art is that it is timeless and its meaning can not be reduced at a time or context.

Jerome mentions Schopenhauer for whom art is an expression of individuality the individual eyepiece focus on transcendence.

For another participant, on the contrary, a work of art is enhanced by the context in which it appeared.
It evokes the sublime "Poems to Lou" Charles Baudelaire wrote in Nimes shortly before leaving for the front and dedicated to Louise de Coligny Chatillon he loved passionately and with whom he had spent a few nights of love.

Art and educational function

art would bring light to the people. Art and money



artists such as sculptors of antiquity, and well before we speak of the art market, have made numerous works on commission to earn money. The fact remains that they have managed to produce masterpieces.

To quote one speaker Paul Eluard and his poem "Freedom", many artists were not paid and refused to be because they fought for freedom. For Jerome


all this demonstrates that whatever the motivation, the rest of the Art Art. It is not, joining the position of Schopenhauer, hired for Art for we must directly express the messages that do not earn to be portrayed by the mediation of art.

For one speaker, the message expressed in a work of art which makes its value.
For example, a poem by Louis Aragon "there is no happy love" written in 1942 has a political message.

Jerome reiterated that for him, a sense of value hidden away at work but do not add.


Work of Art and Censorship: The removal

Bauhaus by the Nazis chasing what they called art degenerate is emblematic of the dangerous character of the art NFU to totalitarian regimes.
One speaker recalled, without confusion or put on the same plane, kidnapping a few days ago of the facade of Fine Arts in Paris the work of Chinese artist on "work more to earn more."
This shows that freedom is a condition of artistic expression. Art and beauty



The concept of beauty, emotion is fundamental.
If there is no beauty, there is no piece of art.

Jerome, to prevent the debate gets lost on the concept of what is beautiful or not Schopenhauer quotes for which the concept of beauty is very broad.





Art and social relevance

A participant in the debate believes that, as Bourdieu put it, Art hypostasizes social, that is to say that some wrongly consider that art would be reality in itself, absolute, then it inspires only social conditioning and is therefore relative.

For him, music was important because it was socially useful. Art has a meaning only through its social utility.
Picasso boredom, he does not want Apollinaire or Mozart and he dares to say. All these artists almost imposed on the consent of each "enfument the people" and rob the creative ability which must be expressed in their real lives.

The Opera is far from the fascinating because it is detached from a social practice rooted in the experiences of people. Which reacted another participant who talks about his grandmother, after a modest background and, in Italy, sang arias by his kitchen. She regrets what she considers a situationist interpretation misunderstood and refuse to be confused with the artistic creation "star system" today.
Another speaker said that one can not reduce art to a bourgeois concept and art for everyone even if some art education is needed.

Jerome says he does not believe in the universality of art. He recognizes that some education in art. But the mastery of codes is not absolute link with the fact that art is popular or not. He also cites the need to practice citing Gilles Deleuze, for which we can not call someone a great philosopher who has not changed the way of doing philosophy.



The subject of the next coffee philosophy has not been given at the end of the session. It will be communicated on the blog with the date the next meeting as soon as I know him.

See you next month .... Keep well until taking the life .... with philosophy!


Jean-Michel Dahan Doladille

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Opinion on the artwork she has a utility? " The next Café Philo

a small ROSE MARIE notice: "The work of art she has a utility?


I think art is the" transcript ", by the artist, or a feeling of resentment that it results in writing, sculpture or any form of art.
is then interpreted by each of the outcome of this feeling or resentment.

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The next Café Philo held at Bistrot du Cours Friday, February 12 at 21:00 with the theme "A WORK OF ART DOES A UTILITY?"


The first that comes to mind is that we will discuss and find ourselves in a friendly atmosphere where the intelligence of the mind and the heart that must be complementary.



few references (not exhaustive and it is not, of course, necessary to have read) texts or works dealing with the theme of art:


- Jean Paul Sartre : "What is literature? .


Sartre responds to critics who accuse him of trying to make literature critical art. To do this, he seeks to highlight the difference and the other (music and painting).


- Arthur Schopenhauer: "From the intimate essence of art" which comes from the book "The World as Will and Representation." (Supplement to the third book. Chapter XXXIV).


... music is not only the first and most important art, but art that is at once metaphysical, more able to grasp the philosophy being that any or making use of science concepts.


- Hannah Arendt: "The Crisis of Culture".


What is special about the artwork in relation to other human productions? The author's thesis is that works of art stand out from any other human production by their durability and uselessness.


- Pierre Bourdieu, "Distinction".

In this book, Pierre Bourdieu contributes to invalidate the elite discourse about beauty by uncovering the social determinants, both economic and cultural, that such discourse behind without their knowledge.


- Martin Heidegger: "The origin of the work of art" part of the book "The Paths that lead nowhere."


For Heidegger, art occupies a special place. This is not a human like everyone else. There is between the artwork and be an affinity that is its relationship to truth. Through art (especially the poem), and by itself truth has itself implemented. In this sense, the art reveals the essence of time, that is to say its origin.