The Dialectic of Artistic Form

ISBN-13: 9783866883086 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2013 / 412 str.

Aleksei Fyodorovich Losev

Opis

This translation of Losev's aesthetic treatise is prefaced by a thorough analysis of Losev's sources and an outline of the continuing relevance of his aesthetic theory to present-day aesthetics.

Spis treści

I. Main definitions 1. The primary dialectical tetractys - 2. Some necessary dialectical details within the structure of the tetractys - 3. Tetractys as intelligence - 4. The categorial structure of the energy of the essence (and in particular of its expression) - 5. A phenomenologo-dialectical map of the real name, or of energetic expressiveness - 6. The definition of the notion 'artistic form' - II. Antinomics 7. A phenomenological dialectic of the notion 'artistic form.' Antinomies of fact - 8. Antinomies of understanding, or expression - 9. Antinomies of meaning - 10. Antinomies of myth - 11. Antinomies of adequateness - 12. Antinomies of isolation, or of isolated autarky (self-sufficiency) - 13. Summary of the phenomenologo-dialectical analysis of the notion 'artistic form' - 14. Classification of the types of artistic form: a) eidetic types - 15. Classification of the types of artistic form: b) mythical types and c) person-based types - 16. Classification of the types of artistic form: d) modificational person-based types - 17. Classification of the types of artistic form: e) stylistic and f) compositional types - 18. General overview of the dialectic of particular types of artistic form