THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE
THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I intend to show that the differences between the aesthetic experience and the religious experience do not “close” the dialogue between the aesthetic man (the modern one) and the religious man (the premodern one). Although these two types of experience are distinguished by “the way in which everyone understands its object” (while aesthetic perception implies a kind of “moderate” emotional identification with the aesthetic object, authentic religious feeling involves renunciation to self and total dedication)—there is a similarity between aesthetic experience and religious experience which resides in the fact that “towards their object, both are in an attitude of contempla-tion” (Paul Evdochimov).

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