The Way Out: Naturalising Art (for a New Mythology)

This thesis addresses art and humanity's joint meaning crisis created by the modern mythology's corruption of linkages between aesthetics, ethics, and logic, propelling humanity towards unsustainability. Reconceiving art as complexity science restores its ontological place in these normative sciences rather than theoretical aesthetics. This is achieved by combining Schelling's system with Peirce's semiotics and Scheler's philosophical anthropology. Reviving art's Principle thus 'naturalises' our habitual attendance toward higher meaning. Driven less by historical exegesis than rethinking art's truth, the thesis invites healthy debate on art's artificial subjectivation in modernity and failure to nurture individuals and society via objective norms and values.