@article{Mazzocut-Mis_Scanziani_2023, title={Souriau’s Animal Aesthetics In Context: Nature, Sensibility, and Form}, volume={15}, url={https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/13982}, DOI={10.36253/Aisthesis-13982}, abstractNote={<p class="p1">The work defines three aspects of Souriau’s animal aesthetics by stressing their relevance in the context of early and contemporary ethology: in (1), the concept «biological nature» which is interpreted by Souriau as a realm of appearances and as intrinsically aesthetic; in (2), the concept of animal sensibility, which makes it possible to reframe animals’ artistic behaviours and the sense by which such phenomena establish a meaningful relationship with the environment; in (3), the concept of form, in the description of natural appearances, is presented as it enters into the process of institution that, accordingly to Souriau’s interpretation of biological nature, encompasses non-human animals and humans. All three definitions will allow us a), to present Souriau’s critique of anthropomorphism and his proposal of an «healthy» zoomorphism; b) to reformulate animals’ sensibility in a non-reductionistic fashion; and finally, c) to address the issue with the supposedly sole communicative function of animal artistic behaviors.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico}, author={Mazzocut-Mis, Maddalena and Scanziani, Andrea}, year={2023}, month={Feb.}, pages={15–27} }