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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dobrokhotov, Aleksandr

Titel

GAKhN: an aesthetics of ruins, or Aleksej Losev's failed project

Ist Teil von

• Studies in East European thought, 2011-02, Vol.63 (1), p.31-42

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the course of his collaboration with GAKhN, whose task was to create a systemic 'scientific' theory of art, Losev undertook a systematic interpretation of German classical aesthetics as the historical presupposition for his own Christian, Platonist doctrine of art conceived as a dialectical universe comprising totalizing connections at all levels. This interpretation was concealed in a masterful way within the ' Commentaries' to Dialektika khudozestvennoj formy. Independently of the significant results achieved by this revival of the classical tradition, Losev's mythologized theory of art called forth a critical reaction on the part of his GAKhN colleagues and brought to light some of the broader theoretical attitudes present among GAKhN's collaborators.