Concept of Aesthetic Experience
and Question of Grand Theory in Aesthetics
Artem Radeev
St.Petersburg State University, Russia
Doubts
Aesthetic experience
Grand Theory
Presentation
What is
Grand Theory
I. Grand Theory
Grand Theory
and aesthetic experience
Grand Theory as integrative approach which explains social
and natural processes
Charles Wright Mills: sociology
of T. Parsons as Grand Theory
Grand Theory
in aesthetics
Rejection of Grand Theory
in philosophy
Rejection of Grand Theory
in social sciences
Types of theories
of aesthetic experience
Incredulity towards
metanarratives (J.-F. Lyotard)
Multitude:
Post-Theory:
Grand Theory is
a fascism of theory
N. Carroll
Grand Theory supposes
an absence of conditions
A. Negri & M. Hardt
D. Bordwell
P. Virno
Grand Theory supposes pure differences
theories of predetermination:
explanatory theories:
T. Adorno
J. Kupchik
etc.
Kant
Hegel
Beardsley
etc.
productive theories:
G. Deleuze & F. Guattari
N. Bourriaud
B. Naney
etc.
Thank you!
Artem Radeev
artem_radeew@mail.ru
III. Grand Theory
and aesthetic experience
1. Say "No" to reducing
aesthetic experience
to appreciation
or to experience of art
Return of Grand Theory
2. Say "No" to any cultural, social, etc. predominations of aesthetic experience
articles about returning
of Grand Theory
by Mikhail Yampolsky
II. Grand Theory
in aesthetics
2. What is behind an aesthetic theory
1. Status of theory
in aesthetics
aestheticians have only
explained the various
subjects in various ways;
the point is to produce it
constructing
versus
explaining