The hermeneutics of the image – sensual appearance of sense

• Authors: Weichert Katarzyna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The task of the hermeneutics of the image is to grasp the sensual emergence of meaning, to describe the conditions of its forming and the possibilities for its understanding. Gottfried Boehm suggests an answer to the question about sensual sense and formulates the most important aspects of the potential for creation of meaning. This potential is rooted in iconic difference, which manifests itself both through the liberating power of contrast and as a relation between the part and the whole – that is, a relation between transitions, or consecutiveness, and the simultaneity of the image. Sensuality, which organises and articulates the pictorial meaning, remains unseen, even elusive – “empty” – though it drives the play of difference and oscillation.

Keywords

EN

hermeneutics of the image; Boehm; iconic difference; iconic thickness; simultaneity; aesthetic non‑differentiation.

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Estetyka i Krytyka
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 4(43)
• Pages: 187-202

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Weichert Katarzyna

• University of Warsaw, Poland

Identifiers

ISSN

1643-1243