ЕСТЕТИЧКИ ПОГЛЕДИ АНДРЕЈА МИТРОВИЋА
AESTHETIC STANDPOINTS OF ANDREJ MITROVIĆ

Summary/Abstract: The author of this paper proves and shows that meticulous investigations of contemporary history by Dr Andrej Todorović also included investigations of contemporary culture (art, religion, science and philosophy), particularly of contemporary European painting, literature and film. In doing so, Kolarić proves that Andrej Mitrović is an heir of the classical philosophical and aesthetic standpoints: 1. He overreaches both historicism and historism, i.e. he believes that history does not recur, but that only individual historic phenomena are the ones that recur; 2. For him aesthetics is a “science about the beautiful”, thus being callistica, not philosophy of art; 3. A famous historian has no explicitly developed theory, yet he does possess an implicit theory, i.e. his aesthetic ideal is the unity of beauty and goodness (“kalokagathia”); and 4. In his interpretation of art, it also manifests non-artistic purposes (involvement). The author points out that Andrej Mitrović, by discovering important meeting points between a historian and an artist, formed an authentic standpoint, which states that it is not sufficient for the history to be the “life’s teacher” and that it is necessary to convert the classic maxim into the direction of existentialism and involvement, i.e. towards life which is and is supposed to be the “history’s teacher”.

• Details
• Contents