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THE POSTMODERN DILEMMAS OF AESTHETICS
Since the beginning of our century, inquiry about the condition of aesthetics has been a habitual affair. The question has been connected with understanding of the status of philosophy as well as art. It has ultimately demanded consideration of the issues about what being human means in given cultural frames. Not so long ago the reflections of many scholars and art critics turned to the possible extinction of aesthetics. Now, when their thoughts turn to what is vaguely and clumsily called ‘postmodernism’, one asks, hesitantly, whether any new aesthetics corresponding to this phenomenon can be discerned.
By ‘aesthetics’ I have in mind a special autonomous discipline, the subject matter of which is the ...
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