Living your life as a work of art — Bergson on the essence of artistic creativity
Living your life as a work of art — Bergson on the essence of artistic creativity

Summary/Abstract: At the turn of the 19th-20th century’s forming existentialism has set the stage of the trend: „living is art”. Writing a good poem meant that it is beautiful and the result is always an artwork. But how can we decide whether an artwork is beautiful or not? Does one have any method or theory with which one can separate a good artwork from a bad one? And does it have any role in our spiritual life? These are the big questions of theories of art, and in this paper I try to point out that Bergson gives a useful answer to them by showing a new philosophy pointing beyond rationality, intellectuality and the method of natural science. Thus he paved the way to a new metaphysics which has become a target of hard criticism but a rich philosophical source of contemporary theories of art as well.

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