The work of art for Nishida Kitarō and Alva Noë

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dc.contributor.authorWalsh, Daviden
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-21T16:32:18Z
dc.date.available2026-01-21T16:32:18Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractWhat characterises art? Is it an object, a practice, an activity, an expression, an experience—or something entirely different? One way to answer is by looking at what art does rather than what it is—at the work art itself achieves. This paper places Nishida Kitarō in dialogue with Alva Noë, showing how both view art as something that actively works in and with the world. For Nishida, art exemplifies kōiteki chokkan , enacted by the interplay of action, intuition, and world. For Noë, art is an activity that offers new ways to organise life. Building on John C. Maraldo’s enactivist reading of kōiteki chokkan , this paper argues that Nishida and Noë share an implicitly enactivist view of art, where artistic actions and intuitions both shape and get shaped by the world. While they differ on the artist’s role, their perspectives together offer a more robust enactivist theory of art.en
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dc.identifier.citationWalsh, D. (2025) 'The work of art for Nishida Kitarō and Alva Noë', Philosophy East and West, [advance online publication on Project MUSE]. https://doi.org/10.1353/pew.2025.a958621en
dc.identifier.doi10.1353/pew.2025.a958621en
dc.identifier.issn1529-1898en
dc.identifier.journaltitlePhilosophy East and Westen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18435
dc.identifier.volume76en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherProject MUSEen
dc.rights© 2025, the Author.en
dc.statusPeer revieweden
dc.subjectAlva Noëen
dc.subjectStrange toolsen
dc.subjectNishida Kitarōen
dc.subjectKōiteki Chokkanen
dc.subjectActing intuitionen
dc.subjectPhilosophy of arten
dc.subjectEnactivismen
dc.subjectEnacted cognitionen
dc.subject~Philosophy - Journal Articles~en
dc.titleThe work of art for Nishida Kitarō and Alva Noëen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
dc.typejournal-articleen
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