The Entanglement

“Winner of the Outstanding Monograph Prize, American Society for Aesthetics”
“Longlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize, Royal Institute of Philosophy”
“What Noë shows is how that essential act of ‘making’ art is more than just an act of pleasure. What it really encompasses is a radical act of inquiry into our entanglement.”—Adam Frank, Big Think
“Art is at the heart of philosophy and the fusion of the two with a range of subjects can help us better understand what makes us human… . Alva Noë has introduced his thesis that is bound to generate enough debate on the antidote supplied by art and philosophy that ‘makes us what we are,’ a state where the people, surrounded by music, art, sculpture, poetry become creative enough to break out of the codified social organisation into a more liberated and an inspirationally fulfilling life infused with the aesthetic.”—Shelley Walia, The Hindu
“For a half-decade, I’ve been puzzling through art’s functionless function with Alva Noë… . [The Entanglement] digs into the difference between the pictures and objects humans use every day, to shop on Amazon.com or to call on their gods, and the pictures and objects we use as works of art.”—Blake Gopnik, New York Times
“Alva Noë’s fascinating and expansive new book gives an account of what art does, what it and philosophy of philosophy have in common, and how these activities should be situated in our best account of the world.”—Owen Andrew Wynn, Times Literary Supplement
”[An] interesting interdisciplinary book exploring the inseparability of life, art and philosophy in the context of an entangled reality… is an original and liberating phenomenological perspective in relation to existential self-making and world-making.”—David Lorimer, The Paradigm Explorer

Alva Noë is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a member of the Center for New Media, the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and the Program in Critical Theory. His many books include Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature and Learning to Look: Dispatches from the Art World.

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