More than an attitude: Roman Ingarden's aesthetics
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Cathrine Kietz
Cathrine Kietz (b. 1979) is a PhD from the Center for Semiotics, Aarhus University 〈semck@hum.au.dk〉. Her research interests include phenomenology of reading.
Abstract
In this article I develop the ontological category of Ideal Possibilities to account for the special existence of the aesthetic object. In Roman Ingarden's aesthetics, he makes a distinction between the work of art and the aesthetic object because the aesthetic object is dependent on the individual observer, whereas the work of art remains the same for all observers. But if the aesthetic object is only a part of the observer's experience, it would make aesthetics a study for psychology.
In order to understand the aesthetic object's relation to the observer, and to the work of art, I will introduce Ingarden's ontological dependence relations in order to account for the mode of being of both the work of art and the aesthetic object. This is where I propose a new category within the ideal mode of being, which I call Ideal Possibility. I do this by expanding on the dependence relation of heteronomy, which will allow for a continuous conception of Ingarden's otherwise isolated modes of being.
About the author
Cathrine Kietz (b. 1979) is a PhD from the Center for Semiotics, Aarhus University 〈semck@hum.au.dk〉. Her research interests include phenomenology of reading.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Introduction
- Approaching the abstract: Building blocks for an epistemology of abstract objects
- The ideal as real and as purely intentional: Ingarden-based reflections
- Making sense together: A dynamical account of linguistic meaning-making
- An example of the “synthetic a priori”: On how it helps us to widen our philosophical horizons
- The generality of signs: The actual relevance of anti-psychologism
- Sensory imagination and narrative perspective: Explaining perceptual focalization
- The basic distinctions in Der Streit
- The Wolf: Ingarden to the narratological rescue. A few remarks on a messy situation within the theory of fiction
- Roman Ingarden's theory of reader experience: A critical assessment
- Varieties of intentional objects
- More than an attitude: Roman Ingarden's aesthetics
