Von der Kunst, sich fremd werden zu können

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-246
Author(s):  
Judith-Frederike Popp
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Alternative Conception ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Main Element ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Practical Standpoint ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Original Potential ◽  
Normative Implications

"Von der Kunst, sich fremd werden zu können Der ästhetische Standpunkt als Korrektiv praktischer VernünftigkeitDer Beitrag folgt der These, dass die ästhetische Dimension des vernünftigenStandpunkts das zentrale Element einer angemessenen Perspektive darauf bildet,wie das Zusammenspiel von Rationalität und Irrationalität zur praktischen Selbstbestimmungals Person beitragen kann. Den Ausgangspunkt bildet eine Auseinandersetzungmit der Position, die normativen Implikationen praktischer Vernünftigkeitund Selbstbestimmung ließen sich aus einem abstrakten Moment derreflexiven Distanznahme ableiten. Der Blick auf Christine Korsgaards Version dieserIdee macht deutlich, dass die dabei aktualisierte Vorstellung des praktischenStandpunkts sowohl einer mangelnden methodologischen Reflexion anheimfälltals auch der Besonderheit irrationaler Handlungen und Erfahrungen nicht gerechtzu werden vermag. Der weitere Text zeigt auf, dass die Suche nach einer alternativenKonzeption, die beide Aspekte berücksichtigt, von einer Gegenüberstellungmit der Psychoanalyse profitiert, da diese in der Lage ist, die Philosophie auf dasoriginäre Potential zurückzuverweisen, das sie in ihren ästhetischen Perspektivenauf praktische Standpunkte zu entfalten vermag. The article follows the hypothesis that the aesthetic dimension of the standpoint of reason providesthe main element for an appropriate perspective on how the interplay between rationalityand irrationality is able to contribute to practical self-determination as a person. The startingpoint is formed by the critical discussion of the position considering that it is possible to derivethe normative implications of practical reasonableness and self-determination from an abstractmomentum of reflective distance. Whilst taking a look at Christine Korsgaard’s version ofthis idea it becomes clear that it rests on a conception of the practical standpoint that suffersboth from a lack of methodological self-reflection and from neglecting the special features andpotentials of irrational actions and experiences. The following text shows how the search foran alternative conception, which takes both aspects into account, benefits from a comparisonwith psychoanalysis, since this discipline is able to methodologically refer philosophy back tothe original potential it unfolds in its aesthetic perspectives on practical standpoints. "

scholarly journals Die Kunst der zweiten Natur und die andere Natur der Kunst

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-361
Author(s):  
Thomas Khurana
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Life ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Second Nature ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Understanding ◽  
First Nature ◽  
Point Of Reference

Abstract This contribution traces an aesthetic shift in the concept of second nature that occurs around 1800 and raises the question as to what role art might play in a culture that already conceives of itself in generally aesthetic terms. The paper recalls Kant’s rejection of habit as a proper realization of ethical life and shows that in his third critique, Kant proposes a second nature of a different kind. To realize ethical life as a “second (supersensible) nature”, we cannot confine ourselves to mere habituation but require a different type of second nature that is exemplified by the work of art. The paper asks what role art may adopt in an aestheticised culture arising from the success of such an aesthetic understanding in the wake of Kant, from Schiller through to Nietzsche. It argues that art redefines its role by taking not first nature but the second nature of ethical life as its main point of reference. Art thus reconceives itself as a self-reflection of our second nature. The paper discusses three models of such self-reflection: the aesthetic estrangement, the beautiful completion, and the dialectical renegotiation of our second nature.

scholarly journals What does success mean for autistic men? A narrative exploration of self-determination

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 239694152094552
Author(s):  
Amanda A Webster ◽  
Susanne Garvis
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Social ◽  
High Level ◽  
Experience Difficulty

Background Studies involving autistic adults have often focused on negative outcomes and quality of life ratings. Aims This study provides a different viewpoint by examining the perspectives of autistic men who consider themselves to be successful. Methods Data were gathered from 10 men who shared their experiences and perceptions regarding their journey to achieve success. Self-determination theory provided a useful lens for examining the men’s narratives and understanding the factors that led to their success. Results Analysis of interviews revealed four main themes: (1) being my own self, (2) a competent professional, (3) solving problems in a neurotypical world, and (4) relating and connecting. These themes reflect the men’s perception of their own self-determination including their autonomy, competence, and relatedness with others. Conclusions The men’s sense of success was derived from their ability to achieve competence in their work, act without help or influence from others and demonstrate a high level of self-awareness and self-reflection. Despite this, many continued to experience difficulty in the social areas of their lives. Implications: These findings suggest that self-determination theory may present an alternative and more positive means of enacting support programs for autistic individuals, and males in particular.

scholarly journals The Importance of Reflection: An Exploratory Analysis on How Prospective Psychotherapists Learn Self-Determination

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-204
Author(s):  
Bo Nurmi ◽  
Clive S. Michelsen ◽  
Torsten Norlander
Keyword(s):  
Training Programs ◽  
Therapist Training ◽  
Process Research ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Complicated Process ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Relevant Level

Background: Learning to become a psychotherapist is a complicated process. Research on this topic has been limited and there is little consensus on how to assess therapeutic skills. SP/SR (Self-Reflection/Self-Practice) has emerged as a theory and method for learning psychotherapy. In this article students' reflections on how to become a psychotherapist has been studied from a phenomenological perspective. Objective: The aim of the present exploratory study was to generate preliminary hypotheses for future investigations in order to elucidate the complicated processes that occur during the therapist training programs. Methods: Five prospective psychotherapists were recruited to the present investigation, who all studied at the penultimate semester at Evidens University College, Gothenburg, Sweden. Unstructured qualitative in-depth interviews were used followed by phenomenological analysis. Results: Analysis yielded 252 meaning units and 12 categories which in turn led to four overarching themes: Learning as a visit to the dentist (when learning becomes painful because certain issues are not resolved); Learning as theatre (when the students just perform what is expected in order to pass); Learning as post-training soreness (when the learning process is challenging on a relevant level); Learning as reflections (when the students seek the intrinsic meaning). Conclusion: The study provided a basis for preliminary hypotheses for future investigations: reflections are helpful for managing the challenges described in the four themes. This, in turn, led to the formulation of some proposals for research questions for future investigations.

scholarly journals Professional Reflection as Constituent of Personality Self-Development of Future Lawyer

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 99-111
Author(s):  
Oksana Kulida
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Professional Self

In the article the professional training of a future specialist is analyzed; development, self-development, self-determination and self-reflection are its main tasks. It is proved that reflection plays the synthesizing role and encourages the widening of the personality limits. The reflection essence is personality’s realizing oneself as a potential or a real subject of a particular professional activity. According to the lawyers’ professional training results this activity determines not only proper specifics of the attitude to a profession but one’s personal or social life. It has been justified that professional self-reflection is carried out as the initial professional self-determination of a personality and the series of professional choices. It is noted that the positive attitude to oneself encourages the positive attitude to the future and awareness of one’s abilities in achieving a goal is taking place on the conditions of a positive attitude to future. It has been proved that one of the main components influencing the formation of today’s specialist abilities in achieving success in professional activity and professional self-actualization is the high level of the formed professional self-consciousness. The model of professional self-reflection of a future specialist corresponds to the psychological structure of self-consciousness and it has three subsequent interconnected stages: professional self-knowing, self-attitude and self-regulation, the content of which is determined by peculiarities of professional activity of a specialist and requirements set by a personality to one’s professional knowledge, skills and professionally important qualities. It is emphasized that professional self-reflection specifies the understanding oneself as a subject of a particular professional activity and involves the availability of: the conscious process of forming one’s attitude to the professional-working sphere; self-assessment of one’s individual psychological qualities and comparing one’s abilities with psychological requirements to a profession; the constant search for senses in a professional activity; self-regulation of behavior carried out through correlation of inner-personal and social-professional needs and directed to reaching a set goal. It has been proved that reflection activity is an important condition of self-development of a personality, an indicator of personal and professional values and senses determining the culture of activity. Reflection activity is considered as one of the ways education modernization and a mechanism of independent development, search, discovery, creation or making a new product, constructing individual experience, experimental check of external impacts, stereotypes, activity patterns, self-development forecasting.

House of Usher

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evert van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Aesthetic Appeal ◽  
Sound Effects ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
Extended Analysis ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Original Story ◽  
The Impact

Despite being the product of Roger Corman's AIP exploitation studio, House of Usher enjoys a high standing. But while the impact and cult status of Corman's Edgar Allan Poe cycle is often discussed in histories of gothic, horror, and exploitation cinema, no extended analysis and critical discussion has been published to date that explores specifically the aesthetic appeal of House of Usher. This book provides a complete study of the aesthetic appeal of Corman's influential first Poe picture. The book explores the underlying narrative structure borrowed from Poe's original story and shows how closely Richard Matheson's script followed Poe's theory of short fiction. It goes on to explore the formal techniques of allegory and symbolism employed to represent the house as a monster before focusing on Corman's imagery, showing how the use of specific camera angles, lenses, colors, and sound effects create and sustain the simultaneously morbid and beautiful atmosphere of gothic decay. Finally, the book situates horror icon Vincent Price's performance as Roderick Usher in the context of the nineteenth-century Romantic misfit and the postwar countercultural antihero, two closely related cultural identities.

Die Stimmung des Willens

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-552
Author(s):  
Jörg Noller
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Ontological Category ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Individual Self

Abstract This paper reconstructs Friedrich Schiller’s aesthetics from a compatibilist point of view. I shall argue that it is Schiller’s conception of individual self-determination that motivates his aesthetic critique of Kant’s moral philosophy. Schiller conceives of aesthetic self-determination in terms of a compatibilism between reason and nature. As such, Schiller’s aesthetics can be interpreted as an ontological category. His concepts of love, play and the aesthetic state must therefore be understood in terms of volitional structures that describe human freedom in nature, history and society.

scholarly journals Integration Attempts Paweł Mykietyn and the Composer’s Self-Reflection

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Gmys
Keyword(s):  
Compositional Process ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Musical Time ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Middle Generation ◽  
Musical Forms

Abstract In this paper, the author attempts to reconstruct the aesthetic views of Paweł Mykietyn, a leading Polish composer of the middle generation. Since Mykietyn has never presented his views comprehensively, the author reconstructs his opinions on the basis of published interviews with the composer, focusing on his ideas regarding musical and nonmusical inspirations, the significance of mathematical procedures in the compositional process, traditional musical forms, the role of quotations and self-quotations, experimentation with microtones and musical time, as well as the concept of music as autobiography.

scholarly journals “An Inner Comprehension of the Pueblo Indian’s Point of View”: Carl Gustav Jung’s 1925 Visit to Taos, New Mexico

Text Matters ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 177-188
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Maszewski
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mountain Lake ◽  
Pueblo Indians ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Sense Of Satisfaction ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
European Thought

Carl Jung paid a short visit to Taos, New Mexico, in January 1925. A brief account of his stay at the Pueblo appeared in Memories, Dreams, Reflections, edited by Aniela Jaffe in 1963. Remembering his conversations with Mountain Lake (Antonio Mirabal), Jung wrote of the confrontation between the “European consciousness,” or the “European thought,” with the Indian “unconscious.” My article provides a reading of Jung’s text as a meeting ground of the aesthetic, emotional, visionary and of the analytical, rational, explanatory. Like many other European and Anglo-American visitors to Taos Pueblo, Jung rediscovers its capacity to mirror the inner needs of the visitor; he examines the significance of the encounter with the Southwestern landscape and with the Pueblo Indians’ religious views in terms of self-reflection and of the return to the mythical. As Carl Jung’s “inner comprehension” of the Pueblo Indian’s philosophy is mediated through language, aware both of its desire and its inability to become liberated from the European perspectives, Mountain Lake’s attitude towards his visitor from Switzerland remains ultimately unknown; Mountain Lake does, however, communicate his readiness to assume the archetypal role of a teacher and a spiritual guide whose insights reach beyond the confines and mystifications of language. According to Jung’s account, during this brief encounter of the two cultures, he and his Indian host experienced a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment, the sources of which, as they both understood them in their own individual ways, resided in the comprehension of universal sharing.

scholarly journals A few remarks on some issues and problems of self-determination and foundation in the works of Milan Brdar

2020 ◽  
pp. 271-280
Author(s):  
Marinko Lolic
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Reliable Instrument ◽  
European Philosophy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
Crucial Condition

This paper critically discusses the achievements of the most important representatives of the history of philosophy, sociology, political science in the interpretation of the fundamental philosophical issues and social phenomena of modern times. In the philosophical works which begin with the debate with Popper through the most recent papers in which the research in the modern and postmodern European philosophy is intensified, Milan Brdar critically reconsiders the main ideas of Descartes? and Hegel?s philosophy trying to address the modern idea of reason as self-conscious self-relation in the spirit of analytic Cartesian method and radical philosophical self-reflection. This form of critical theoretical reconsideration implies that, if we want to be autonomous and free subjects not only of our individual but also of our collective way of life and history, we have to relate to ourselves as well as to others critically and to be conscious of that relation. This paper points out that the author starts from the crucial idea of the modern European philosophy that philosophy does not address, only the matter itself, but also one?s self-reflection. In his opinion the permanent self-reflection of philosophy represents the crucial condition which philosophy has to fulfill in order to become the reliable instrument of understanding of the society.

scholarly journals Genre specificity of the monodrama by the Mordovian writer A. P. Teryoshkin «The Whistleblower»

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-614
Author(s):  
Yu. G. Antonov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Small Study ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Human Destiny ◽  
Individual Human ◽  
Aesthetic Evolution

Introduction: the Mordovian drama genre paradigm develops constantly and is presently enriched with creative innovations that demonstrate the search for the new forms of interpreting reality and the ways to present individual and personal spirits of people. Innovative phenomena in drama update the ethnic art literature and make significant adjustments to its aesthetic evolution. The relevance of the article is determined by the need to understand the artistic processes taking place in Mordovian drama. The object of the study is the artistic particularities of A. Teryoshkin’s genre experiment in the monodrama «The Whistleblower». Objective: to analyze the genre specifics of the monodrama «The Whistleblower» by A. Teryoshkin. Research materials: the monodrama «The Whistleblower» by A. Teryoshkin. Results and novelty of the research: the scientific novelty of the article is due to the small study of the creative work of A. Teryoshkin as the dramatist. The author comes to the conclusion that the analysis of individual human destiny in the monodrama by A. Teryoshkin is carried out by means of self-reflection of the hero in the form of a monologue story revealing the inner motifs of actions. In general, all this reflects the complexity and multidimensionality of the surrounding reality. The fact that the playwright uses extraordinary artistic means within the genre form, innovative for the national literature, confirms his intention to develop the aesthetic framework of Mordovian drama.

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