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The idea of "art as research" and "research as art" have risen over the past two decades as important critical focuses for the philosophy of media, aesthetics, and art. Of particular interest is how the methodologies of art and science might be merged to create a better conceptual understanding of art-based research.

In Epistemologies of Aesthetics, Dieter Mersch deconstructs and displaces the terminology that typically accompanies the question of the relationship between art and scientific truth. Identifying artistic practices as modes of thought that do not make use of language in a way that can easily be translated into scientific discourse, Mersch advocates for an aesthetic mode of thought beyond the "linguistic turn," a way of thinking that cannot be substituted by any other disciplinary system.

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7 - 16 Introduction (Dieter Mersch)17 - 60 Research in the Realm of Aesthetics (Dieter Mersch)61 - 114 A Short History of ´Truth´ in Art (Dieter Mersch)115 - 164 ´Con-Stellare´: The Reflexive Epistemic of the Arts (Dieter Mersch)165 - 176 In Conclusion: Epistemic Practices of the Arts (Dieter Mersch)

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Mersch, Dieter
Dieter Mersch studierte Mathematik und Philosophie in Köln, Bochum, Darmstadt. 2004 wurde er Professor für Medientheorie und Medienwissenschaften an der Universität Potsdam. Seit 2013 ist er Leiter des Instituts für Theorie an der ZHdK Zürich. Dieter Mersch war Gastprofessor in Chicago, Budapest und Luzern, Fellow am IKKM Weimar und an der ZHdK Zürich. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Medienphilosophie, Ästhetik und Kunsttheorie, Semiotik, Hermeneutik, Poststrukturalismus sowie Philosophie des Bildes und der Sprache.

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