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Aesthetic Attention : A Proposal to Pay It More Attention

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Cuccuru K.

Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics

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2018

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vol. 55 (New Series 11)

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issue 2

155-179

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Whether it is consciously focusing on a painting’s intricate layers of pigment or spontaneously being drawn to new layers of voices in a choral performance, attention appears essential to aesthetic experience. It is surprising, then, that the actual nature of attention is little discussed in aesthetic theory. Conversely, attention is currently one of the most vibrantly discussed topics in the philosophy of perception and in cognitive science. My aim is to demonstrate the need for and the value of aestheticians considering such philosophical accounts in order to establish a clear understanding of ‘aesthetic attention’. I assess the existing aesthetic candidates against Wayne Wu’s characterization of attention as ‘selection for a task’. Finding that these candidates lack full explanatory force, I make the novel proposal that aesthetic attention is best characterized as ‘selecting for the sake of selection’. Finally, I suggest that both aesthetics and, more broadly, the philosophy of attention would benefit from paying aesthetic attention more attention.

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The Religious Dimension of Aesthetic Experience

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Stuparu L.-V.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2015

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issue 1

86-98

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In this paper I intend to show that the differences between the aesthetic experience and the religious experience do not “close” the dialogue between the aesthetic man (the modern one) and the religious man (the premodern one). Although these two types of experience are distinguished by “the way in which everyone understands its object” (while aesthetic perception implies a kind of “moderate” emotional identification with the aesthetic object, authentic religious feeling involves renunciation to self and total dedication)—there is a similarity between aesthetic experience and religious experience which resides in the fact that “towards their object, both are in an attitude of contempla-tion” (Paul Evdochimov).

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Vasily Sesemann’s Phenomenological Aesthetics

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Geniusas S.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2016

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issue 3

125-138

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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.

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Changes in the structure of historical consciousness and the perception of architectural style: A case study in the popular perception of Brutalism from 1945 to 2019

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Lack A., Korynta J.

Świat i Słowo

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2020

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vol. 34(1)

179-210

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This study investigates changes in the popularity of Brutalist buildings from the 1940’s to present. Our methodological framework is derived from three sources: (1) Reinhardt Koselleck’s work on historical consciousness in the field of conceptual history; (2) Martin Heidegger’s phenomenological approach to temporality, mood, and perception, and: (3) Ernst Becker’s work on the denial of death and the quest for immortality. Our thesis is that changing perceptions of Brutalist architecture, in many cases radically different evaluations of the same buildings, are the effects of historically specific cultural, political, and social structures. In phenomenological terms, these structures form fairly discrete systems of relevance. That which is held to be profoundly interesting, or exciting, or progressive in one system of relevance can appear dull, menacing, or foolish in another. The systems that we identity, describe, and explain, are: (1) Collective mobilization in the service of progress (1941- 1978); (2) In the Shadow of the Tyranny of the State 1978-2001; and (3) Seeking Certainty and Security in the Ambiguity of Global Risk: 2001 to 2019. We show how each system has produced a distinct perspective on brutalist architecture which influences the popularity of the style, or lack thereof.

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That Thou Art: Aesthetic Soul/Bodies and Self Interbeing in Buddhism, Phenomenology, and Pragmatism

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Jones D.

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture

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2020

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vol. 4

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issue 3

37-47

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The inheritance of dualism from Plato to Descartes, and since, has impoverished the human relation with nature, the world, other humans, and other species. The division of soul and body, and its counterpart of mind and body, gave us a world from which we believe ourselves to be separate from and superior to other species. This self-othering standpoint has had devastating consequences socially, politically, economically, and ecologically. This essay seeks to identify some resources in the Western tradition in phenomenology and pragmatism that avoid this standpoint and bring them into conversation with some primary insights of Buddhist philosophy: interdependent arising, the not-self, and interbeing. By doing so, it is not only suggested that comparative conversations are not only useful in their own right, but they add dimensions to our experience in the world. Moreover, they offer avenues for living enriched lives in concert with the world without engaging in self-deceptive mental and comforting psychological activities of who and what we really are.

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Aesthetics and the Arts of Engagement

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Berleant A.

Roczniki Kulturoznawcze

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2021

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vol. 12

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issue 1

19-29

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In an earlier study I suggested that the study of aesthetics, rather than being derived from first principles, would benefit, in particular, from knowledge of contemporary developments in the arts. Over the last two centuries, social, technological, and cultural changes have had a transformative effect on the arts and on aesthetic experience. Such fundamental changes called for a new account that would explain them and rationalize their occurrence. I proposed integrating aesthetic experience into a perceptual field that combined the creative, appreciative, objective (i.e. focused), and performative functions in what I called aesthetic engagement. Over the past half century, trends in the arts and their experience have moved more emphatically away from discrete objects and disinterested contemplation, fulfilling the transition to an aesthetic of active engagement of artist, appreciator, object and performer in an experiential aesthetic field

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Estetyka i sztuka zaangażowania We wcześniejszym opracowaniu zasugerowałem, że badanie estetyki, zamiast wychodzić od podstawowych zasad, przyniosłoby większe korzyści przez zaznajomienie ze współczesnymi osiągnięciami w sztuce. W ciągu ostatnich dwóch stuleci przemiany społeczne, technologiczne i kulturowe wywarły wielki wpływ na sztukę i doznania estetyczne. Owe fundamentalne zmiany wymagały nowego opisu, który by je objaśniał i racjonalizował. Zaproponowałem zintegrowanie doświadczenia estetycznego z polem percepcyjnym, które łączy w sobie funkcje twórcze, aprecjacyjne, obiektywne i performatywne w tym, co nazwałem zaangażowaniem estetycznym. W ciągu ostatniego półwiecza trendy w sztuce i ich doświadczeniu coraz wyraźniej odchodziły od dyskretnych przedmiotów i bezinteresownej kontemplacji, realizując przejście do estetyki aktywnego zaangażowania artysty, apreciatora, przedmiotu i performera w doświadczalnej dziedzinie estetycznej.

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