Your complimentary articles You’ve read one of your four complimentary articles for this month. You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please Books Luka Zurkic considers how art and philosophy affect life. Alva Noë argues in The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are (2023) that art and philosophy are not optional add-ons to ordinary life; they are practices that reshape how we perceive, act, and understand ourselves. Rather than arguing about whether art or philosophy are valuable, Noë asks us to notice how artistic and reflective activities become inextricably woven into everyday activities. The book unfolds not as a polemic or a manifesto, but as a series of careful demonstrations. Noë builds his case through vivid, close attention to particular practices and artworks.…