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Axiology in Stefan Morawski’s Aesthetics, Several Critical Doubts
Axiology in Stefan Morawski’s Aesthetics, Several Critical Doubts

Author(s): Piotr J. Przybysz
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Aesthetics, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Stefan Morawski; historical-cultural relationism; philosophical aesthetics; aesthetic qualities and values; artistic qualities and values; the end of art;

Summary/Abstract: The article tries to answer the question of what the specificity of Morawski’s aesthetics is. I indicate that Morawski is in favour of historical-cultural relationalism, where aesthetics is practised as a philosophical discipline, whose object of cognition is aesthetic qualities and values, and in art they are reduced to artistic qualities and values which it ultimately replaces with a set of aesthetic invariants. In the concluding part I undertake a polemic with Morawski’s standpoint on reducing artistic qualities and values in art to aesthetic qualities and values and with his diagnosis of the end of art.

  • Issue Year: 51/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 111-126
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English