The Aesthetic Motives in the Philosophical Anthropology of Arnold Gehlen
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https://doi.org/10.12775/szhf.2013.011Keywords
anthropology, aesthetics, symbol, instinctive reaction, ritual-presenting actions, releasing stimulus, beauty, rationalityAbstract
The author of the article reconstructs the aesthetic motives in Arnold Gehlen’s project of philosophical anthropology. The first part of the essay presents the process of emerging of artistic creativity from ritual-presenting actions. In the second part author elaborates the conception of abstract art, which Gehlen treats as a specific laboratory in which artists explore the possibilities of deep, previously undiscovered layers of human perception.
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