MENO APIBRĖŽTIES PROBLEMA: MORRISO WEITZO METODOLOGINIS REDUKTYVIZMAS
DEFINING ART: METHODOLOGICAL REDUCTIONISM OF MORRIS WEITZ

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the argument for the impossibility of the definition of art by Morris Weitz which provoked a controversy in contemporary analytic philosophy of art. The typology of its basic components – the linguistical, the demarcational, the epistemic and the metacritical – is given. Weitz’s reductionist argumenta¬tion is asserted to be insufficient for denying the pos¬sibility of the definition of art. With the aim of defending “traditional” essentialism, this thesis is grounded by displaying the basic principles of Clive Bell’s and Benedetto Croce’s conceptions of art. Weitz’s method of “similarity conditions” is shown to be based on too broad criteria and thus to fail to solve the problem of the demarcation between art and non-art. Keywords: definition of art, analytic philosophy of art, essentialist theories of art, Morris Weitz.

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