The Art Instinct


Guyau

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This afternoon at the APA Central Division Meeting in Chicago, an intriguing paper "What Is an Artwork? Ernst Cassirer's Dialogical Philosophy of Art?" by Anne Pollok (University of South Carolina):

Abstract

Although Ernst Cassirer never dedicated a full volume of his monumental Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923-29) to art, this particular form of human expression and interaction still looms large in his late writings in the 1930s and early 1940s. Art, as I interpret Cassirer's main claims there, is a language that forms its subject-'matter' not to convey an understanding of the world, but to create "a manifestation of inner life" (Essay on Man, 169) that reveals the depth of our mutual experience of the world. This 'inner life' is not a private experience by either artist or audience, but a social act, a dialogue.

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On April 19, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Guyau said:

. . . However, Rand’s thesis that because art belongs to the basic nature of man’s consciousness it is “a non-socializable aspect of reality” (15) is erroneous. Communication, entirely concordant with personal cognitive and affective satisfaction, is a constant aim of art. . . .

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