The Ambiguity of Mimesis: Kierkegaard between Aesthetic Fantasy and Religious Imitation

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-110
Author(s):  
Nicola Ramazzotto
Keyword(s):  
Imitation Of Christ ◽  
Aesthetic Field ◽  
The Aesthetic

Abstract This paper attempts to investigate Kierkegaard’s thought through the category of mimesis. First, two meanings of the word are distinguished and analyzed: the archaic meaning that links it to the concept of re-enactment, and the traditional meaning that links it to the aesthetic field of art. These two meanings are then considered in relation to Kierkegaard’s opus, showing the oscillation of mimesis as corresponding to that between the aesthetic, which lives in fantasy and in the unfulfilled possibility, and the religious, which finds its identity in the imitation of Christ and in the transparent relationship to God.

The Modern Image, I

2019 ◽  
pp. 262-292
Author(s):  
Thomas Nail
Keyword(s):  
Steel Frames ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Photographic Image ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Aesthetic Field ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Kinetic Pattern ◽  
Modern Image ◽  
Similar Kinetic

The argument in this chapter and the next is that the aesthetic field during the modern period is defined by an elastic and differential regime of motion. These two chapters marshal support for this thesis by looking closely at major arts of the modern age: steel, photographic image, and the novel in Chapter 13, and meter, the action arts, and molecular arts in the next chapter. Although empirically quite different and distributed over hundreds of years, each follows a similar kinetic pattern or regime. This chapter looks at the way in which steel architecture, photography, and the novel move elastically by expanding and contracting and open series of frames (steel frames, photographic frames, and print frames).

The Medieval Image, I

2019 ◽  
pp. 196-223
Author(s):  
Thomas Nail
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Aesthetic Field ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Middle Ages

Chapter 10 presents a realist aesthetics (versus constructivist) and a kinetic materialism (versus formal idealism) that focuses on the material kinetic structure of the work of art itself, inclusive of milieu and viewer. What the author calls “kinesthetics” is a return to the works of art themselves as fields of images, affects, and sensations. The chapter more specifically offers a focused study of the material kinetic conditions of the dominant aesthetic field of relation during the Middle Ages. The argument here and in the next chapter is that during the Middle Ages, the aesthetic field is defined by a tensional and relational regime of motion. This idea is supported by looking closely at three major arts of the Middle Ages: glassworks, the church, and distillation. The next chapter likewise considers perspective, the keyboard, and epistolography.

Dandy Socialism

Maska ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (185) ◽  
pp. 134-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lev Kreft
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Class Society ◽  
Aesthetic Field ◽  
Young Hegelians ◽  
The Aesthetic

‘It was a dark and stormy night...’ with these words Edward Bulwer-Lytton began his 1830 novel Paul Clifford. ‘Le 13 décembre 1838, par une soirée pluvieuse et froid’ are the words with which Eugène Sue begins his novel The Mysteries of Paris, its narrative following a ‘conceptual’ introductory address to the reader. There are many more features connecting these two popular literary pieces of the Romantic period. In-between, a new genre emerged – the melodramatic social(ist) novel – together with new means of communication, i.e. the novel feuilleton that was printed in daily newspapers. This subtle form of censorship suggests that a genre believed to be melodramatically mediocre had an excessive aestheticopolitical attractiveness. Eugène Sue was a star writer of nineteenth century bestsellers novels–feuilletons during the period between the two revolutions of 1830 and 1848. Afterwards he practically fell into oblivion and was barely mentioned in the company of ‘serious’ writers like Balzac and Hugo or Dickens and Thackeray, all of whom, however, took his allegedly mediocre melodramatic and popular narratives as cases to be followed. His temporary fame was confirmed by the response of Bruno Bauer’s group of young Hegelians, who found in Sue’s literary attractiveness a philosophical solution for all the mysteries and conflicts of the period. Marx’s criticism of their philosophical and political position in The Sacred Family includes a lengthy and thorough criticism of their ‘philosophical’ readings of the novel, of the novel itself, and of their and Sue’s understanding of the new bourgeois reality. Among other points, Sue’s alleged socialism is described with the help of a comparison between the police and the moral police. Can we, along with a re-establishment of the context of The Mysteries of Paris, leave behind the critique of ideology and the literary critique of popular and mass culture in order to bring back into the aesthetic field this melodramatic narrative of class society and to re-establish the politics of its aesthetics?

The Aesthetic Field: A Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience

1971 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
L. L. Duroche ◽  
Arnold Berleant
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Aesthetic Field ◽  
The Aesthetic

scholarly journals Theater museums as a base for excursion and tourism programs

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (27) ◽  
pp. 333-339
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Portnova
Keyword(s):  
Work Related ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
History Of ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Aesthetic Field ◽  
Academic School ◽  
Tourism Service ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Artistic Image

The article discusses excursion work related to theatrical museum collections, which is one of the interesting, but little developed types of activities in the field of tourism. Гhe author refers to the specifics of the theater museums involved in updating knowledge and raising the professional level, developing practical skills and professional competencies of tourism service specialists in the field of a holistic presentation of the history of the development of such a museum as a specific sociocultural institute. It touches on the interesting history of the creation, formation and composition of collections, as well as the modern activities of major museums and the latest museum centers around the world, hosting tourists. It is noted that the purpose of excursion and tourist programs using the collections of theater museums is not only to improve the modern tourist structure, but also to create a special spatial and artistic image that complements the content of the text, overcomes psychological discomfort due to the frequent presence of tourists in the bus or in open spaces , by creating favorable environmental conditions, the realization of the aesthetic potential of the museum atmosphere, capable of Favorably affect the emotional state and enrich the tour. In this regard, today, an important complex of problems that lie in the aesthetic field arises in the context of intensive tourism development processes, along with the need to solve infrastructure and technological issues, problems of implementing socio-economic problems in the tourism sector. Theater museums in excursion programs are considered as a special historical and cultural phenomenon. Their development is a continuation of world and domestic experience and, at the same time, a unique cultural phenomenon, inextricably linked both with the regional traditions of the countries and with the theater school - the academic school, for which the theater exhibit has become the most important area for the realization of creative potential.  An attempt is being made to reflect the optimal combination of considering general theoretical and methodological issues and concrete and practical material on museum theater pedagogy.

The Aesthetic Field of I. A. Richards

1956 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 348
Author(s):  
G. A. Rudolph
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Field ◽  
The Aesthetic
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