Data di Pubblicazione:
2020
Citazione:
Aesthetics / M. MAZZOCUT MIS - In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible / [a cura di] V. Glăveanu. - [s.l] : Springer, 2020. - ISBN 978-3-319-98390-5. - pp. 1-8 [10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5]
Abstract:
Aesthetics is a philosophical discipline whose
modern roots can be traced back to the first half
of the eighteenth century, when Alexander
Gottlieb Baumgarten thus named the “science
of sensible knowledge,” forming a noun out of
the Greek adjective aisthetike. He focused on
the problem of sensation, recognizing that Aesthetics
much be considered as its own specific
field of inquiry whose laws can be recognized
and, indeed, described (Baumgarten, Meditationes
philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema
pertinentibus. Halae Magdeburgicae: Litteris
Ioannis Henrici Grunerti, acad. Typogr, 1735;
Baumgarten, Aesthetica. G. Olms, Hildesheim,
1750). Aesthetics is thus caught between philosophy,
poetics, and rhetoric, which had to
work hard to find its own independent location.
The discipline’s relative youth does not mean,
however, that one can ignore its basis in classical
philosophy, with which it has always been in
dialogue from the eighteenth century onward.
The great issues of Aesthetics, especially its
reflection on theories of beauty, are rooted in
classical thought, finding a full conceptual formulation
and vocabulary in the Enlightenment,
while augmenting reflection on creative
processes within the arts and processes of reception.
Through categories such as beauty, ugliness,
the sublime, and kitsch, Aesthetics must
come face to face today with a form of art
whose borders are increasingly blurry and
accept the disciplinary challenges laid down
by neuro-aesthetics and technological hyper-realism,
which are reanimating classical problems
and terminology. Without being absorbed into
new disciplinary and cultural horizons, contemporary
Aesthetics is producing its own original
standpoint, using its own conceptual tools to
shed light on the new challenges that art, its
creation, and enjoyment force us to confront.
Tipologia IRIS:
03 - Contributo in volume
Keywords:
Aesthetics; Enjoyment; Taste; Creation; Genius; Aesthetic categories
Elenco autori:
M. MAZZOCUT MIS
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Titolo del libro:
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible