Art and Aesthetics and the Crisis of Culture
Art and Aesthetics and the Crisis of Culture

Summary/Abstract: My scheme in this paper is to pinpoint first the main issues of interwar thought on the crisis of culture and then to focus on contemporary conceptions with respect to this question. In the final concluding section, I shall tackle present-day art and aesthetics in the context of their interplay with the broader cultural background. Let me stress that their intertwining does not mean simple interdependency., Art and aesthetics beyond any doubt uncover the fact of the erosion of some of the most fundamental values. However, artists and students of aesthetic problems give vent to the rages and hopes of our times because they were and are directly incited by the crisis of culture. Thus, if there is a dependent relation, it rather follows in a single direction.

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