Evolution of theoretical virtualisation of aesthetic practices

Evolution of theoretical virtualisation of aesthetic practice is considered in the focus of chronic replacement of gnoseological problems of 'judgements of taste' by the ontological one. Originally, within aesthetics as a science, aesthetic practices served as reality cognition and reflection by analysing the potential of art creativity. G. Leibniz defined sensual as a vague vision of the real. He formulates the knowledge theory basing on criticism of sensationalism and Locke's empiricism. Locke's 'tabula rasa' confirms the inability of mind to generate concepts and ideas beyond sensual experience. For Leibniz, mind defines borders and limits of sensual experience and is a source of the objective and the general in ideas, while sensual experience only promotes actualisation of ideas. For Baumgarten, science of sensual knowledge is possible and necessary as well as logic, but sensual knowledge is subordinate to mind and is the lowest form of cognition. For Kant, 'judgements of taste' (sensual knowledge) do not describe the real, but the condition of the subject in the relation with a thing. Nietzsche represents the reality of culture as a result of subjective, artistic, aesthetic vision of the world, which is given general character by conventions of groups of individuals in society. The aesthetic is understood as the horizon of existence. The perception of creativity in existentialism is the refusal of the objective reality and the proclamation of the world of imagination as a unique worthy place for the person, the space of subjective freedom. Structuralism opposes sensualism. It denies the unstable bases of subjectivity, aspires to rationalise aesthetic approaches and to develop a universal method to reach objectivity. Structuralism restores the formalistic approach (its premises are found in Leibniz's philosophy) to research of art texts and cultures. The existential approach and structuralistic formalism are237reconsidered in post-structuralism and, being modified, reunite in deconstructivism. Thus, evolution of theoretical virtualisation of aesthetic practices can be represented in the form of a step-by-step replacement of elements of the tertiary matrix: space of aesthetic content - element of aesthetic properties generation - subject of aesthetic practices

Keywords

Authors

References