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Играта като свобода от принуда – условие за естетическа наслада
Play as Freedom from Coercion: A Condition for Aesthetic Pleasure

Author(s): Iskra Tsoneva
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Aesthetics, Special Branches of Philosophy, Theory of Literature
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: play; work; value; perception; beauty; judgment of taste;

Summary/Abstract: This article concerns the concept of play as it is argued in The Sense of Beauty, by the American critical realist philosopher George Santayana. His argumentation represents a tacit polemic with the understanding of play in the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Thus, the key issue of the article is the opposition between transcendentally reasoned argumentation and a psycho-social understanding of the essence and meaning of play. Keywords: play; work; value; perception; beauty; judgment of taste.

  • Issue Year: XXV/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 5-17
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English, Bulgarian