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embracetheterritorymuchwiderthantheartisticobject,
reachingtowardstheaestheticsofthebeautiful,the
picturesqueandthesublimetobefoundinourenvironment
-innature.
Aesthetics,anońspringofmodernrationality,was
originallysupposedtobeadiscursivediscipline,“ayounger
sisteroflogic”.3Kant’scontribution,revolvingaroundthe
ideaofdisinterestednessanddistanceofasubjective,yet
necessaryanduniversal,judgmentoftaste,lefuswiththe
worlddividedintotheseparaterealms,wheretheaesthetic
wasseparatedfromthescientific,theethical,and,most
importantly,fromthepraxisoflife.Terifwasdeepened
bytheHegelianidealism,wheretheproperobjectof
philosophicalreflectionwasprimarilyaworkofart,alofy
productofthespirit.Aestheticthought,stillresonantof
thePlatonicvisions,claimedtheideaofrepresentation,
constructingtheorderofbeinganditsevocation,
recapturingorilluminationinart.Representation,
perceivedascreatinganimagethatstandsin-between,on
theislandposition,transgressingboththesphereofthought
andthesphereoftheworld,wasconsideredadistinct
planeandactivity.Tus,theissueofthepositionofartin
referencetootherhumanactivitieswasusuallyresolved
infavourofaestheticisolation.Itsfoundationwas“abelief
inontologicaldiscretenessofaestheticperceptionandthe
correspondingremovalofartobjectsfromtheotherobjects
andactivitiesthatsurroundus.”4
However,sincethe1960s,thisarbitraryposition,almost
automaticallyacceptedbythesuccessivegenerations,has
seemedtobefadingaway,imperceptiblyturningintoone
moreblack-and-whitesketchontheestimablepagesof
thehistoryofWesternthought.Rediscoveringitshalf-for-
gottenoriginsunderthethinpavingoftheoryisolatingthe
3
FranciszekChmielowski,“Filozofia,estetyka,metafizyka,”
Diametros3(March2005),p.10.
4
ArnoldBerleant,Re-thinkingAesthetics:RogueEssaysonAesthet-
icsandTeArts(Hampshire:AshgatePublishingLimited,2004),
p.59.
