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Погледът и ръката. Естетическото преоткриване на тялото (част 2)
Sight and Hand. Aesthetical Rediscovery of the Body (Part 2)

Author(s): Petar Plamenov
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: aesthetics; body; hand; sight; phenomenology; postmodernism; archetype; mirror; spirit; I-You relationship; flesh; game; image; otherness.

Summary/Abstract: Paradoxically, sight and hand are instruments of the spirit. What is that within us that emancipates sight and hand from their sensory spontaneity and makes them instruments of aesthetic freedom? While the hand presents the body as volume and in relief, as performed space and tactile sensory availability, as flesh and skin, weight, etc., the eye speaks of the body in terms of light, distance and image. The body is created through sight. The body literally emerges from the eye to the other body. The flesh of the universe is not interpreted through the body, but is experienced immediately, directly and in a timely manner in the body.

  • Issue Year: XXIV/2015
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 78-86
  • Page Count: 9