ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ К ПУБЛИКАЦИИ СТАТЬИ ОСКАРА БЕККЕРА «О ХРУПКОСТИ ПРЕКРАСНОГО И АВАНТЮРИЗМЕ ХУДОЖНИКА. ОНТОЛОГИЧЕСКОЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ В ЭСТЕТИЧЕСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ ФЕНОМЕНА»
THE PREFACE TO THE TRANSLATION O. BECKER. THE VACUITY OF ART AND THE DARING OF THE ARTIST

Summary/Abstract: This paper is the first publication of a translation of the classical phenomenological article byOskar Becker into Russian. It contains an exemplary application of phenomenological methodin the field of esthetics. The aim of the article’s author is to introduce the new category of “vacuity”(it goes from K. Solger) in the former esthetics. Becker believes that vacuity is a constitutivefeature of the beautiful as well as of the esthetic domain as such. He also calls it “fragility”and “frailness”. The philosopher uses the method of separation (die Abhebung) trying to distinguishthe proper meaning of fragility and the similar but not identical phenomena. He statesthat fragility belongs to any esthetical phenomenon regardless of its tragic or comic characteror of its character of pulchritudo vaga. The analysis of the possibility of the disinterested pleasureas opposed to the phenomenon of “thrill” in the field of esthetics given by Becker is of veryimportance. Generally, he thinks that the esthetical objects are phenomena as phenomena.And their way of being is auto to phainesthai in the sense of Th. Hobbes. The main thesis relatingto the esthetical phenomena by Becker, who follows F. Schelling here, is that their ontologicalbasis is in the identity of conscious and unconscious principles of being. In conclusion,Becker analyses of the temporality of being of an artist basing on Heidegger’s hermeneuticalontology. Becker, however, introduces his own notion of stateliness (die Getragenheit), whichshows that the being of an artist is raised by grace of nature outside the ordinary historicity.Thus, the temporal mode of being of an artist is the eternal presence according to Becker.

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