Human sciences as pragmatic to the cultures: between art, dishes and paradoxes

Abstract

Renaissance art and considerations from Sociology. The idea is to show how different worldviews in the art scene of the 15th and 16th centuries can become interesting examples of seeing and narrating the world, of incorporating oneself in it, and essentially in admitting or not the possible indissoluble correlation between represented reality and transcendent truth. Through a brief analysis of some artworks from the Renaissance and the so-called Mannerism, the present text tries to reflect on science and art, and on the current challenges of the Humanities, as a field of knowledge. Jean-François Lyotard’s phenomenology is used as an analytical framework for such reflections, as well as Georg Simmel’s sociological impressionism, enabling to correlate everyday life metaphors in an attempt to reintroduce the themes and concerns proper to the field of Humanities, and Sociology in particular.