- Tytuł:
- Distracted Aesthetics: Towards a Hermeneutics of Engagement with Distractive Works of Art
- Autorzy:
- Harmon, Justin L.
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/19322623.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2023-09-30
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Filozofii
- Tematy:
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hermeneutics
Walter Benjamin
distraction
aesthetics
street art - Opis:
- Western aesthetics has privileged contemplation as a necessary condition for authentic aesthetic experience. In contrast, I argue that the adequacy of aesthetic comportment must be measured by the self-presentation of the object in question, shaped by the place from which such presentations issue. Thus, the specific character of many forms of art, particularly in urban contexts, solicits a kind of “distracted” engagement rather than contemplative attention. Distraction is a positive mode of aesthetic engagement. I begin with a critical account of the formalist theories of Kant and Bell as examples of this privileging of contemplative hermeneutics. I then consider Walter Benjamin’s theory of mimesis as a basis for a more fruitful account of aesthetic form, of which certain “distractive” artworks serve as examples. Distraction is an appropriate response to certain presentations, in the face of which absorption would be a kind of aesthetic failure.
- Źródło:
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Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture; 2023, 7, 2; 36-51
2544-302X - Pojawia się w:
- Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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