Zašto ne estetika igre?
Aesthetics of Dance – Why Not?

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to re-examine the question of dance as an art form. Namely, in the history of western philosophy and aesthetics there can scarcely be found examples of philosophical research dedicated to the art of dance. Therefore, we can speak of specific absence of dance and aesthetics of dance in the history of philosophy. Although the concept of dance plays a very prominent role in some philosophies, the art of dance is evidently neglected. The starting point of discovering the reasons that lead to such a situation is an 18th-century concept of art. The concept of art in the 18th century is dissolved from its connections with science and knowledge, which in consequence made it possible for a new understanding of art to be formed. The analysis in the paper examines two specific forms of such change, the first one belonging to the project of Enlightenment and the other one marking arts as closely connected to the concept of beauty. Both proposed inclusion and exclusion of specific arts in the corpus of cardinal arts, the first one excluding and the other one including dance. Therefore, the result of this research is given in terms of pointing out to the criterion of this inclusion and exclusion as a question of knowledge, i.e. the question in which manner and how much should experience of art be considered as knowledgebearing. The absence of aesthetics of dance, therefore, can be traced to the tendency of modern aesthetics to envisage arts in terms of non-aesthetical problems of knowledge.

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