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The writings of Jean-Marie Schaeffer stand out among those of other French philosophers because they not only emphasize the relevance of the evolutionary approach within philosophical reflection, generally completely discredited in intellectual circles linked to continental philosophy, but because they introduce it into aesthetic research, which is even less frequent among philosophers in general. In Schaeffer's research, this approach makes explicit the existence of a meeting point between, on the one hand, the philosophical critique of anthropocentrism and animal ethics, and, on the other hand, aesthetic analysis. As I argue in this paper, in light of Shaeffer's reflections some important implications of the theory of biological evolution in the problematization of the assumption of a human moral superiority within philosophical aesthetics become evident. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I aim to analyze Guerrero's position as a reader of Heidegger, particularly the conceptual continuities and discontinuities between the Argentine philosopher's methodological proposal of an "operative aesthetic" and the German thinker's essay on art. We will focus on the first volume, Estética operatoria en tres direcciones. Revelación y acogimiento de la obra de arte, and the essay "The Origin of the Work of Art". Our hypothesis is that Guerrero is an anthropophagic reader: while he agrees with some of Heidegger's ideas on art, the Argentine philosopher is also critical and, through his reading of "The Origin of the Work of Art", he elaborates an original proposal. Specifically, Guerrero takes, I affirm, the phenomenological-hermeneutical methodology and applies it in an original way to the analysis of works of art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]