Възможни ли са тишината и мълчанието като естетически феномени?
Are Silence and Taciturnity Possible as Aesthetic Phenomena?

Summary/Abstract: The article strives to legitimize the cultural phenomenon of silence, and its subjective correlate taciturnity, as philosophical concepts possessing an immense axiological charge and, respectively, as full-valued aesthetic phenomena. The marginalization of the Western aesthetics of silence and taciturnity in the field of pure artistry and subjectivity – as a result of the dominant Christian discourse – , together with the increasingly persistent dissolving of the artistic sphere within the broader culture, and the de-aesthetization of art itself, lead to the diffusion of the topics of silence and the ineffable into modern cultural discourse; to asserting silence and taciturnity as a negativity that comes to preserve the value of human integrity beyond the fragments of life in the age of visual and information overload, speed and noise. It is precisely in this sense that contemporary art and culture use with increasing tendentiousness the aesthetics of silence and taciturnity as a shelter and rescue from the contemporary world.

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