Негативен естетизъм? (Спиноза и Вермеер)
Negative Aestheticism? (Spinoza and Vermeer)

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to show how Baruch Spinoza’s refusal to render the aesthetic self-sufficient contains a kind of negative aestheticism. Its artistic correlate is Johannes Vermeer’s gesture of affirming the aesthetic as a self-sufficient realm. These two gestures reveal, however, not only the thinker’s effort to transform philosophy from a merely abstract rational reflection into an effective form of life, but also the painter’s effort to sublate the formulation ut pictura poiesis, which reduces art to a pictorial re-presentation. The Spinozian kinds of knowledge find their meaningful parallels in the paintings of Johanes Vermeer (there being no evidence of direct „influence“, however) precisely through artistic roles, statements, poses regarding the main borderline forms that determine the dialogue between arts.

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