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Aksjologiczny wymiar współczesnej rekonfiguracji aisthesis

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Misiak T.

Estetyka i Krytyka

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2012

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issue 1(24)

57-76

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The traditional idea of aesthetics was connected to the sphere of art. Exclusively. Radical ideas of the avant-garde of the 20th century together with the expanding role of media and technology in contemporary culture led to broadening research of aesthetics. Contemporary aesthetics is interested in “aesthetic” in the broadest sense of this word. Thus, it is focused not only on art but also it is interested in everyday reality which is the very object of aesthetic processes. Most of all, however, it is focused on the relationship between art and various spheres of reality. One of the consequences of this changes is questioning the traditional hierarchy of senses with the sense of sight as prior. In my research I point at reasons for such hierarchy and I suggest some alternative ideas. According to the critics of the contemporary culture I mention in this work that balance to the hegemony of the sense of sight and vision may lie in the sense of hearing and sound as such. That is why I describe the metaphor connected to seeing and hearing and the vision of the world associated with it.

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„Śmierć w starych dekoracjach”, czyli „aisthesis” według Tadeusza Różewicza

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Górska I.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2014

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issue 21

181-194

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The aim of this article is to present Różewicz’s way of thinking about the concept of aisthesis based on his short story Śmierć w starych dekoracjach [Death in the Old Decorations]. Różewicz, who follows current trends in aesthetics which appreciate the role that the body and all of the senses play in an aesthetic experience, ennobles the very body that remains a center of sensory and aesthetic perception, in accordance with Richard Shusterman’s somatic philosophy. However, Różewicz’s character, who starts with simple sensory impressions, constantly goes beyond the senses and provides a commentary on each new ordinary, everyday experience as well as an experience of art. These commentaries are constructed from memories, images, reflections or free digressions which are often very remote from what they were triggered by. Różewicz emphasizes both the importance of what is rational and what is sensory for an aesthetic experience, thus overcoming a belief which was promoted by traditional aesthetics, i.e. about the exceptionality of psychological attitudes to aesthetic experiences. He extends aestheticism to include areas that are traditionally considered to be unaesthetic in order to capture the full essence of aisthesis. Therefore, he does not differentiate between the experience of art and ordinary, everyday experiences. This is because aisthesis in Śmierć w starych dekoracjach is a force that merges all these experiences into one whole, thus turning an experience of art into an experience of existence.

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Narodziny mindfulness z ducha (an)estetyki

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Mojsak K.

Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka

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2020

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vol. 110

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issue 3

108-121

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This article analyses mindfulness as an ascetic and aisthetic practice – a form of perception training largely shaped by strictly Western cultural processes dating back to the late 19th century: modern patterns of perception and habitual regimes, including forms of aesthetic contemplation, which permeate our everyday life – as well as the anaesthetic response to the hypertrophy of the aesthetic. Understood as a training of senses, stemming from the need to experience the sense (meaning) at its fundamental psychophysical level, mindfulness is discussed here as a response to the entire constellation of needs and deficits, overlapping with and specific to Western modernity, including the sense of disembodiment (desomatisation), communication overload, and hyperaestheticisation. From this point of view, mindfulness practices might be recognised both as a refinement of aisthetic experience and a form of sensory asceticism. Without disregarding its Buddhist origins, the text draws attention to the elements of mindfulness ideas and practices that seem to be closely related to the Western cultural context, with a particular focus on (broadly understood) aesthetic ideas of the 20th-century modernism.

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Aksjologiczny wymiar współczesnej rekonfiguracji aisthesis

„Śmierć w starych dekoracjach”, czyli „aisthesis” według Tadeusza Różewicza

Narodziny mindfulness z ducha (an)estetyki