SIGNIFICANCE OF BANAL THINGS: A REPLY TO MAKKY

• Authors: Acil Tufan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This short paper comments on Lukáš Makky’s article What Makes Things Banal. The argument is divided into two sections. The first section reconstructs Makky’s understanding of banality, which he develops based on aesthetic theories by Wolfgang Welsch and Walter Benjamin. The second and more critical section examines the validity of the arguments Makky uses for his definition of banality. Although this commentary attaches great value to Makky’s insightful analysis of the term banality and agrees with identifying it as a historical and processual concept, drawing on writings by M. Heidegger and J. Derrida it eventually proposes a different understanding of the relationship between the arts and banal things and underlines the importance of banality for the creation and perception of the arts.

Keywords

EN

BANALITY; AUTHENTICITY; PERCEPTION; REPETITION

• Publisher: Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia ad Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture
• Journal: ESPES
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 105 – 108

Contributors

author

Acil Tufan

• Jagiellonian University, Deparment of Performativity Studies, ul. Gołębia 16, 31-007 Kraków, Poland