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Aesthetic Disinterestedness - Art, Experience, and the Self (Hardcover)
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Aesthetic Disinterestedness - Art, Experience, and the Self (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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The notion of disinterestedness is often conceived of as antiquated
or ideological. In spite of this, Hilgers argues that one cannot
reject it if one wishes to understand the nature of art. He claims
that an artwork typically asks a person to adopt a disinterested
attitude towards what it shows, and that the effect of such an
adoption is that it makes the person temporarily lose the sense of
herself, while enabling her to gain a sense of the other. Due to an
artwork's particular wealth, multiperspectivity, and dialecticity,
the engagement with it cannot culminate in the construction of
world-views, but must initiate a process of self-critical thinking,
which is a precondition of real self-determination. Ultimately,
then, the aesthetic experience of art consists of a dynamic process
of losing the sense of oneself, while gaining a sense of the other,
and of achieving selfhood. In his book, Hilgers spells out the
nature of this process by means of rethinking Kant's and
Schopenhauer's aesthetic theories in light of more recent
developments in philosophy-specifically in hermeneutics, critical
theory, and analytic philosophy-and within the arts
themselves-specifically within film and performance art.
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