Vasily Sesemann’s Phenomenological Aesthetics

• Authors: Geniusas Saulius
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper offers a systematic account of Vasily Sesemann’s aesthetics. First, I ar-gue that, due to the primacy this aesthetics grants to intuition, intentionality and the objectivity of aesthetic values, its underlying principles are decidedly phenomenologi-cal. Secondly, I offer an account of the general structures of perceptual acts and I con-tend that the distinctive nature of aesthetic perception lies in the unique disposition of the aesthetic attitude. Thirdly, I maintain that there are three fundamentally different ways in which one can speak of aesthetic truth: in terms of formal requirements, subjec-tive material requirements, and objective material requirements. Fourthly, I open a short dialogue between Sesemann and Maurice Merleau-Ponty and argue that an artwork ful-fills the objective requirements of material truth when it succeeds in disclosing those levels of experience, on which the theoretical and practical attitudes rest and from which they take their departure.

Keywords

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phenomenology; aesthetics; aesthetic attitude; aesthetic perception; aesthetic truth

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 125-138

Contributors

author

Geniusas Saulius

• Chinese University of Hong Kong, Fung King Hey Bld, Department of Philosophy, CUHK, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong