Problem of the conceptual triad form-content-sense

The article is devoted to questions of genesis and evolution of the conceptual triad form-content-sense. The author considers the given categories in cultural philosophical aspect. Now there is a tendency of displacement of accents from philosophical problems of sense onto culturological ones in connection with some reappraisal of values peculiar to each new stage of public relations that is inherent in modern information society with its issues of globalisation. The culturological paradigm was, as a matter of fact, a timely reaction to mass culture side effects; it was an attempt to reconsider its ideals, search comprehensible ways of spiritual and moral revival. The problem of categories of form, content and sense is broadly researched within different scientific approaches: philosophical, culturological, phenomenological, art criticism, linguistic, hermeneutical and many others. The given categories have received especially extensive application in the field of aesthetics when explaning the nature of art creativity. These categories are shown most fully and visually in art, due to its nature, specificity of the subject, the essence of the artistic image as a special way of reflection of the reality. However, the works of thinkers of the past and the present do not contain the explicit trinity of the categories considered, and the form and content dualism according to the world outlook and aesthetic norms of each epoch dominates, which to a certain degree detracts the true value of sense. Recently the categories of form and content alone cannot reflect the originality of the art world according to its sense and purpose. Attempts to explain the difficult nature of an artistic image, to go beyond the standard duality induce researchers to apply the terms sign and value, text and sense, to merge the concepts content, idea, sense, etc. Lately the theoretical thought has developed not only concerning traditional duality of form and content, but also in the direction of search of a new determinant in the art sphere that has revealed a certain problem of formation of the conceptual triad form-content-sense. Nevertheless, the given triad is quite an objective formation and can be projected at any level of the surrounding reality under condition of rehabilitation of the category of sense

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