Promotionsverbund

Die andere Ästhetik. Reflexionsfiguren der Künste in der Vormoderne

01/02/2014 to 31/01/2017

In recent scholarship, aesthetics has been generally discussed within an evolutionary context. Despite this tendency, the discussion is still overshadowed by a powerful and very influential idealistic theory of aesthetics. Our PhD research network/training programme, however, is looking for yet a third way: neither does it seek the answers in the claim of an anthropological consistency as evolutionary aesthetics does, nor does it adhere to the idea of a teleologically based understanding of autonomous aesthetics. We therefore do not begin our research on the basis of theoretical writings but with reflections about art within literary texts or works of art themselves.
All these different types, figures, and topoi of aesthetic reflection have been grouped by the PhD network /training programme has the heading of „aesthetic (self-)reflection“. We intend to introduce this term as a concept of interdisciplinary research. Based on this concept we aim at opening up reflection for „another aesthetics“ in all its forms, functions and socio-cultural meanings.