Creation and the Function of Art: Techne, Poiesis and the Problem of Aesthetics

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Functions and Models: Art and Knowledge .......5 Functions and Problems ..........5 Mathematical Functions ................9 Functions in Art ........24 The Inaugural Greek Topos: Art, Creation and Nature ...........32 Meaning and Creation .......40 The Overwhelming excess of Insuperable Indigence ........48 2. The Re-Problematization of Techne: Subjects and Praxis ......53 Techne 1: Immancence, Praxis and Intelligibility ..........53 Techne II: Functional Properties .........57 Techne and the Function of Subjectivity .............63 Freud, Lacan and the Re-Orientation of Episteme...........67 Techne and the Agency of Art ...............74 3. Deviant Techne: Phusis and - Jet ..........81 Techne and Technology : Agency and Artifice ......81 Techne III: General Functional Schematic .............95 Deviation and Evolution ........99 Techne IV: Schema for Human Subjects...........114 Techne and Deviation ..............123 4. The Function of Art: Creation and Poiesis ..........129 Poiesis I : Making and Creating ..........129 The disciplinary structure of the Field of Art ............139 Poisis II : Creative and Productie poiesis in the Work of art ........148 Techne to Techne .............165