Schopenhauer on the Values of Aesthetic Experience.pdf

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1、SchopenhauerontheValuesofAestheticExperienceTheSouthernJournalofPhilosophy(2007)Vol.XLVSchopenhauerontheValuesofAestheticExperienceBartVandenabeeleGhentUniversity(Belgium)AbstractInthisessay,IarguethatSchopenhauer’sviewoftheaestheticfeelingsofthebeautifulandthesublimeshowshowa“dialectical”

2、interpre-tationthathomogenizesbothaestheticconceptsandreducesthediscrepancybetweenbothtomerelyquantitativedifferencesisflawed.MycriticalanalysisrevealsanumberofimportanttensionsinbothSchopenhauer’sownaesthetictheory—whichdoesnotultimatelysucceedin“merging”Plato’sandKant’sapproaches—andthei

3、nterpretationthatunjustlyreducesthevalueofaestheticexperiencetoamerelypreliminarystageofethicalwill-lesssalvation.Artdoesnothurtus.Thetearsthatweshedataplayareatypeoftheexquisitesterileemotionsthatitisthefunctionofarttoawaken.Weweep,butwearenotwounded.OscarWildeTheCriticasArtistInthetradit

4、ionalinterpretationofSchopenhauer’saesthetictheory,thethoughtprevailsthataestheticpleasureisrootedinthesubject’sreleasefromtheclawsoftheblindwillandthatsucha(negative)feelingofreliefformsapreparationtotheBartVandenabeeleisProfessorofAestheticsandPhilosophyofArtatGhentUniversity(Belgium).He

5、istheauthorandeditorofseveralbooksinaesthetics,philosophyofart,andphilosophyofculture.Hehaspublishedseveralcontributionsinbooksandinternationaljournalsonaesthetics,thehistoryofphilosophy,andthephilosophyoflanguageinEnglish,German,Portuguese,andDutch.HehasbeenaVisitingProfessoratMissouriWes

6、ternUniversityandStellenboschUniversity(SouthAfrica),andheistheeditorofACompaniontoSchopenhauer(forthcomingfromBlackwell).565565-582Vandenabeele.pm56512/12/07,12:53PMBartVandenabeelepermanentethicaldeliverancefromwilling,whichaccordingtoSchopenhaueristhegoalofthetrulyethicalandasceticlife.

7、ThusSchopenhauer’saestheticsisoftenreducedtoamerelypreliminarystageofametaphysicalethics.Iwanttobeginbychallengingthatview.Ofcourse,sucha“dialectical”interpretation1hasacertainplausibility,andSchopenhauerfrequentlysupportsithimself.Yetacasecanbemadeforsayingth