Abstract:
The word « art » is here understood in the double meaning of its Indo-European root AR-, i.e. an idea of joint and an idea of arrangement. How do living beings arrange the juncture between themselves and the environment ? The question will not be considered only in ecological (or biological) terms, but also in ontological and logical terms ; that is, onto/logically as well. It implies the subjecthood of the living, as advocated by Uexküll (1864-1944) and later by Imanishi (1902-1992), including the human, as advocated by Watsuji (1889-1960), in the epistemic frame of mesology (Umweltlehre, fûdoron 風土論 : the study of milieux, or ambient worlds), which implies not only an overcoming of modern dualism and mechanicism, but also a sublation (Aufhebung) of two incompatible logics : the Aristotelian logic of the identity of the subject, and the Nishidian logic of the identity of the predicate, as represented by the concept of trajection (tsûtai 通態).