Aesthetics and Modernity

The book is a reflection over how art functions in late modernity. It emphasizes processes of fictionalizing reality and exposes, how phenomenology can be used to extract this problem on a foundation of aesthetics. It is a panoramic outlook over existing views, but also a self-sufficient theoretical proposal.

The contents of this book deliberate on the questions related to the function of art and to aesthetics as they exist in the context of the most salient philosophical and cultural late modernist tendencies. The book extracts cornerstone elements of the ever-changing ways people of the 20th and 21st centuries experience the world, and highlights the relation between shifts in modern art, and the processes of fictionalization. Particular focus was placed on a phenomenological perspective. The publication introduces novelty by showcasing the links between reflecting on late modernity, and the philosophical concepts and methodological capabilities of phenomenology. It is a panoramic outlook over existing views, and simultaneously a self-sufficient theoretical proposal.

Autorentext

Iwona Lorenc, Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. Fields of interest: the contemporary philosophy of art, history of aesthetics, and contemporary, chiefly francophone, philosophy (phenomenology, hermeneutics, postmodernism).

Inhalt

Fictionalization of reality - art and the crisis of contemporary experiencing - subversive avant-garde strategies - aesthetic participation - theoretical shift in the arts - landscape phenomenology - phenomenology against the challenges of modernity - phenomenology of painting - contemporary phenomenology of art