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Inaesthetics‹ is a concept introduced by Alain Badiou. It designates the relationship between art and philosophy. In his Petit Manuel d’inesthétique from 1998, Badiou defined this relationship more closely. Badiou distinguishes three schemata by which this relationship has been defined through the course of its history: the didactic schema, the Romantic schema and the classical schema: »In didacticism, philosophy is tied to art in the modality of an educational surveillance of art’s purpose, which views it as extrinsic to truth. In romanticism, art realizes within finitude all the subjective education of which the philosophical infinity of the idea is capable. In classicism, art captures desire and shapes its transference by proposing a semblance of its object.« Obviously it is high time to think through a relationship between art and philosophy in which art no longer functions as an »object for philosophy«.
»By ›inaesthetics‹ I understand a relation of philosophy to art that, maintaining that art is itself a producer of truths, makes no claim to turn art into an object for philosophy. Against aesthetic speculation, inaesthetics describes the strictly intraphilosophical effects produced by the independent existence of some works of art.«