Monografija Apie Pajautą, Meniškumą Ir Teorines Estetikos Prielaidas
Monograph on Esthetic Perception, Artistry, and Prerequisites for Esthetics

Summary/Abstract: The review of: “Pajaustos Mintys: Estetikos Virsmas Estetologija/Aisthesis: from Senses to Insights and from Esthetics to Esthetology” by Juozas Mureika; Kaunas: AB spaustuvë “Spindulys”, 2006. ISBN 978-9955-466-28-6. In this review article concerning the monograph Aisthesis: from Senses to Insights and from Esthetics to Esthetology by J. Mureika, the notion of sensual perception as the category of esthetics is considered. The author of the article supposes that it was W. Tatarkiewicz, famous Polish historian of philosophy, who started to speak about that category as the object of serious esthetic inquiry. During the history of esthetics the problem of relation between esthetic perception as a category and the same as an emotion was regularly formulated and inquired; various solutions were proposed. The author of the review article expresses some doubts concerning the attempts of Mureika to define the esthetic perception as the foundation of esthetology. According to him, Mureika’s treatment of some persons as objects of esthetic perception is also shaky.

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