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The Place of Beauty in the Cultural Robe

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the role of beauty in the creation of culture. The author raises the question about the interaction between culture and nature. According to the author, beauty has been concealed in the folds of the cultural robe. The author uses the M. K. Sarbievius’ conception of discordant harmony (discors concordia) and harmonious discord (concors discordia) to interpret the cultural research of A. J. Greimas’ semiotic aesthetics, M. Heidegger’s conception of the truth, the P. R ic ur’s researches of metaphor, M. Merleau-Ponty’s aesthetical phenomenology. The following theses are raised: 1) culture and nature are reconciled only after the presumption that they both are the harmonic (beautiful) parts of a transcendent creation; 2) beauty is an inversion of the transcendent; 3) beauty is what forces anew the interpretation of the life-whole, although it stays a secret agent; 4) while removing the limits of its place, beauty as a-topic cultural agent makes reality u-topic; 5) the deepening difference between nature and culture follows from ignoring the discordance of a living harmony; 6) the mobile interconnection between visible and invisible signifies a pact of culture and nature in the existential border.

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