The course of aesthetic reason : bonding the intelligible and the sensitive / Por uma razão estetica : um elo entre o inteligivel e o sensivel

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

This work?s central purpose is to defend the aesthetic experience ? understood here as a specific kind of intentionality in which intelligible and sensible combine to compose the aesthetic phenomenon ? as a ground to an aesthetic rationality and, therefore, as a major requirement for the establishment of a reason that can, by analogy, be called aesthetic reason. It is in the complex relation between reflected and unreflected that lies the possible contribution from the aesthetic experience to the constitution of the aesthetic reason; the unreflected portion, mostly irreducible to words, can, through the aesthetic experience, be brought to consciousness. The aesthetic experience is then associated to the very possibility of consciousness of the existential dilemmas that an individual is continually exposed to in his life. This study discusses the effects of aesthetic rationality on the individual; the starting point here will be, hence, an analysis of the most dominant characteristics of our society and its influence on the contemporary man. Therein, we first expect to demonstrate that the rational principle upon which modern civilization was thought to be founded on produced the contrary effect: irrationality. Subsequently, we will suggest an anxiety derived from currently existing social-cultural factors. The main intention of this investigation is, thus, to demonstrate that aesthetic reason is one possibility for overcoming the irrationality that results from the modern rationalization process

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modernidade sensitive experiencia estetica aesthetics modernity sensibilidade razão reason estetica aesthetic experience

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