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Reference:
Khrenov, N. A.
Formation of Humanities Knowledge in Russia:
Situation in Esthetics in the Context of Changing
Cultural Types
// Culture and Art.
2011. № 3.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=58265
Khrenov, N. A. Formation of Humanities Knowledge in Russia:
Situation in Esthetics in the Context of Changing
Cultural Types
Abstract:
The article is devoted to the revival of esthetics
at the end of 1950th. The background for such a revival
was rehabilitation of avant-garde in art at the beginning
of the 20th century not only in the Soviet Union but also all
over the world. It was particularly expressed in the spirits
of the ‘thaw’ epoch. Esthetics was aimed at overcoming
dehumanization. Discussions of this topic (which played
an important role for western existentialism) involved
early works of Karl Marx which touched upon the issue
of ‘estrangement’. Renovating esthetics demonstrated an
expansion of the utilitarian into the sphere of esthetics
which contradicted to the idea of William Morris about
estrangement of culture from society. In such a situation
esthetics of early epochs in history became very topical.
Keywords:
cultural studies, esthetics, post-culture, esthetical renaissance, dehumanization, avant-garde in art, estrangement, Mediaeval esthetics, symbolic forms of expression, Plato’s discourse.
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