Exalted. After the fall
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Since the anonymous late -ant treatise “On the Anticular”, this aesthetic category means something magnificent, which is open to feelings and at the same time goes beyond the limits of sensory experience. We can exalt the novelty, event, free act, sovereign decision, but also war, death, loss, trauma - everything that refers to the unusable or unredalized. Therefore, it is no coincidence that the concept of the exalted attracts special attention in the era of modernity, when the experience of constant updating - “exit from minority” (I. Kant) and at the same time the loss of tradition (E. Berk) becomes fundamental for Western culture. Already in the 20th century, T. Adorno and J.F. Lyotar associate the exalted with the problem of the status of art “after Auschwitz”. In these examples, the outstanding Russian philosopher and theorist of art Valery Plants shows how our understanding and experience of time depends on the concept of the exalted. At each new stage of history, the exalted accepts new outlines and, in a sense, guarantees that in history there can be nothing final: “It remains a mystery where and when, to what extent, and with what intensity the feeling of the exalted one can manifest, and that it, that it, manifesting, discovers in us. Valery Preoroga (1946–2020) - philosopher, anthropologist, art critic, author of more than twenty monographs dedicated to modern Western thought, Russian literature, cinema and the phenomenon of bodily. Close the description
Author:
Author:Подогора В. А.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Arts & Photography
- Category:Culture
- Category:Reference books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-4448-1576-2
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