Group Agency, Aesthetics, and Value Essay Prompt: C. Thi Nguyen wrote: “Art enables groups to keep a grip on emotionally-laden understandings of the world and to commit themselves to subtler expressions of value, ends, and reasons. Art can play a vital role in the inner lives of groups” (p. 2).
What is group agency and what is its connection to art? In light of your definition of group agency, are there group emotions and group values? What values do pieces of art convey and how do symbols installed in public places (namely, monuments) impact collective understanding and knowledge of groups (both inward understanding of the group itself and of the group’s place in the world)?
Sources that must be used (bibliography):
(1) Nguyen, C. Thi (2019). Monuments as commitments: How art speaks to groups and how groups think in art. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 100 (4):971-994. https://philpapers.org/archive/NGUMAC.pdf
(2) Gureckis, Todd M. & Goldstone, Robert L. (2006). Thinking in groups. Pragmatics and Cognition 14 (2):293-311.
(3) Pettit, Philip (2007). Rationality, Reasoning and Group Agency. Dialectica 61 (4):495- 519
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