ABSTRACT
The problems of philosophy and the challenges that it faces from art are laid out in the forms of interesting dialogic inquisitions in this chapter. It further explains how the former Aristotelian knowledge of the totality of causes and principles has ceased to exist; it has been transformed into epistemology and methodology. The impasse of such a situation has also been deepened by the involvement of philosophy with aesthetics propounded by Immanuel Kant. Aesthetics, too, on the other hand, has lost its essence, becoming a sort of “epistemology or methodology of art and beauty”. The chapter gives a logical explanation to the disruption of epistemology in aesthetics and the way the avant-garde has been instrumental in challenging the “tranquil certainty of philosophical aesthetics”. It deliberates the manner in which the avant-garde movement in its different forms of Surrealism, Dadaism, and Cubism refused to accept the restrictive framework of philosophical aesthetics in exchange for the “experience of truth”. The chapter also discusses the present crisis of philosophy, considering Delahey’s view that philosophy has excluded its systematic framework and moved towards the “philosophy of life”.
