Empathy: Primal Scenes
Empathy: Primal Scenes
Author(s): Paweł MościckiContributor(s): Łukasz Mojsak (Translator)
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Widok. Fundacja Kultury Wizualnej
Keywords: empathy; philosophy; aesthetics and politics; the gaze; the Other
Summary/Abstract: The article is a constellation of readings and references, which are meant to bring closer not so much the definition of empathy in the context of images as to reconstruct its conditions of possibility; to trace the dynamics of its generation in and through visual works. The hypothesis around which this essay unfolds is the conviction that in every contact with an image, the key role is played by something imageless, which refers primarily to the other senses, but also structurally relates to an experience in which the ethical and aesthetic component are inseparable from each other. By analyzing specific texts that refer to this structural dimension of the empathic experience, the author concludes his argument with an analysis of selected visual works that shed additional light on his deliberations.
Journal: Widok. Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 26
- Page Range: 56-89
- Page Count: 33
- Language: English