Hermeneutică şi axiologie. Perspectiva baudelairiană
Hermeneutics and Axiology. The Baudelairian Approach

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the formation of the modern paradigm of knowledge by emphasizing the parallelisms and similarities between the epistemic approaches of aesthetics, on the one hand, and those of the hermeneutic theories of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Dilthey, on the other. Taking as its departure point the literary criticism of Charles Baudelaire, the study points out the fact that the birth of aesthetics as an autonomous spiritual domain and the generalization of the hermeneutic critical method are, in fact, the two faces of the same coin – namely, the substitution of the traditional patterns of knowledge and understanding by the modern ones. In addition, the investigation confirms the assertion of Michel Foucault that the substantial change produced by Baudelaire’s literary theories and ideas cannot be properly understood without the conceptual instruments of Kant’s philosophy. The analysis is sustained by elements of the theories of modernity formulated by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

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