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I believe that literature and art, in a broader sense, exert an undeniable influence on social sciences. That is why I call this relationship ‘genealogical.’ This chapter seeks to analyze that bond from its philosophical foundations in the context of postmodernity. To achieve this objective, I will start by examining the traditional concepts of aesthetics and their development through history, considering the worldviews of philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Lukács, and Heidegger. After that, I will analyze the fundamental principles of Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutics related to aesthetics. Gadamer, a disciple of Heidegger, differed from his mentor in his conception of aesthetics and proved the legitimacy of the knowledge held by the sciences of the spirit.
The Calumny of Apelles.
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“What would become of science without metaphors?.”
G. H. Hardy
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Ruiz, J.J. (2022). Literature as a Genealogy of Social Sciences. In: Rezaei, N., Saghazadeh, A. (eds) Thinking. Integrated Science, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04075-7_26
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