Intentionality of a Work of Art in Joseph Margolis’ Metaphysics of Culture and Roman Ingarden’s Phenomenological Aesthetics Cover Image

Intencjonalność dzieła sztuki w filozofii kultury Josepha Margolisa i w fenomenologicznej estetyce Romana Ingardena
Intentionality of a Work of Art in Joseph Margolis’ Metaphysics of Culture and Roman Ingarden’s Phenomenological Aesthetics

Author(s): Aleksandra Lukaszewicz Alcaraz
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: Intentionality; institution; intentional object; the work of art

Summary/Abstract: Extremaly interesting contemporary proposal on the perception of the work of art through the prism of philosophy of culture, as it is presented by Joseph Margolis, points at the specific form of being of the artwork, on its’ ontology of an intentional being. Specifying Intentionality as the characteristics of cultural entities, based on their various forms of appearance and on their openess on interpretation and reidentification in different ways of embodiement. Margolis discusses on the grounds of analystic philosophy, and – when its’ possibilties expire – takes up a dialogue with phenomenological tradition, emerging from Franz Brentano and Edmund Husserl. It is interesting that there lack a reference to Roman Ingarden and his idea of the work of art as an intentional object, though the Margolis’ grasp on the Intentionality as the characteristics of the being of the work of art (and of other cultural entitietos) is close to Ingarden’s understanding of the work of art as an intentional object. Both of them posit the work of art on the third ontological level, neither on physical, nor on ideal, but on the cultural level, which exist factually.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 48
  • Page Range: 89-103
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish
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