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DIALECTIC OF PRESENCE AND INTERPRETATION IN EVERYDAY AESTHETICS: APPLYING HEIDEGGER AND GUMBRECHT TO A WALK IN ONE’S NEIGHBOURHOOD

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Leddy T.

ESPES

2021

vol. 10

issue 2

56 - 71

Gumbrecht’s Heidegger-inspired book, Production of Presence, provides valuable tools for resolving issues in everyday aesthetics. Gumbrecht distinguishes between “presence cultures” and “interpretation cultures.” (Gumbrecht 2004) We live in an interpretation culture, and yet even in our culture there are presence effects. Gumbrecht understands aesthetic experience in terms of the idea of presence. His paradigms are great works of art and great athletic events, all of which take us away from the everyday. I argue that his theory can be adapted, ironically, to everyday aesthetics, in particular to the experience of taking a walk. Much of what we experience aesthetically while taking a walk is experienced in the mode of silence. But, as Gumbrecht observes, there is an oscillation between presence effects and interpretation effects in aesthetic experience. I see that oscillation as something more like dialectic. I also bring Plato’s theory of beauty and Danto’s theory of the art world into this discussion.

DIALECTICAL APPROACH TO BERLEANT’S CONCEPT OF ENGAGEMENT

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Leddy T.

ESPES

2017

vol. 6

issue 2

72 – 78

Arnold Berleant shares much in common with John Dewey. His notion of aesthetic engagement, which is central to his philosophy of art, is, like Dewey’s concept of “an experience,” an attack on dualistic notions of aesthetic experience. To the extent that Berleant and I are both Deweyans, we agree that we need to turn from the art object to art experience. Art is what it does in experience. Yet appreciative experience of art cannot happen without, at some point, focusing on the art object and this means bracketing context. Engagement is important, but so too are contemplation, disinterestedness and distance. Contemplation, for example, is a moment both in the creative process and in the process of appreciation. Moreover, following Brand and Gracyk, it will be argued in the present paper that only through toggling between contemplation and engagement can we obtain a full experience of art, nature, or of the everyday.

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DIALECTIC OF PRESENCE AND INTERPRETATION IN EVERYDAY AESTHETICS: APPLYING HEIDEGGER AND GUMBRECHT TO A WALK IN ONE’S NEIGHBOURHOOD

DIALECTICAL APPROACH TO BERLEANT’S CONCEPT OF ENGAGEMENT