Now online a new article for the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology by Elena Romagnoli (Università di Pisa).
Elena Romagnoli – “Hegel as a Key to the Social Role of Art in Gadamer’s Aesthetics”
JBSP (Received 12 Oct 2024, Accepted 12 Dec 2024, Published online: 18 Dec 2024).
Abstract: My paper aims to highlight the presence of a social conception of art in Gadamer’s thought by analysing his reading of Hegel’s aesthetics. In an initial section I reconstruct the core of Gadamer’s reading of Hegel’s aesthetics as a paradigm to reassess art against the limits of aestheticism. I subsequently focus on the analysis Gadamer provides of the fundamental topic of the “past-character of art”, by stressing how this is reassessed as a “presence of the past”. On this basis, I show how Gadamer’s reading of Hegel helps him focus on the role of contemporary art forms. If in modernity art lost its self-evident character, this does not prevent it from establishing a sense of community. Contemporary art is a search for a communal and social element. Gadamer’s characterization of contemporary art as a work-in-progress and intrinsically linked to the audience’s participation lays the basis for rethinking Gadamer’s aesthetics in a performative direction.
Full article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2024.2443452
Elena Romagnoli (Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge, Philosophy, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
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