Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.52685/pihfb.52.1(103).9
The Subject and Methods of Aesthetics The “Unknown” Lectures of Marijan Tkalčić
Tomislav Škrbić
; Vinogradska 50, Sisak, Croatia
Abstract
In the article are presented the basic principles of Marijan Tkalčić’s text The Subject and Methods of Aesthetics, that is, his philosophy of creativity. According to Tkalčić, the subject of aesthetics is “art in the broadest sense of the word”, and art itself is a dialectical relationship between man and the so-called objective reality or “a specific reckoning between man and object”. In other words, artistic cognition is a “specific image of objective reality”.While, according to Tkalčić, the aesthetic phenomenon is a three-part structure consisting of the receptive aesthetic subject, the work of art and the artist. Furthermore, Tkalčić recognizes objectivist and subjectivist aesthetics as two basic contemporary trends in aesthetics. Tkalčić believes that both directions actually have metaphysical character, and thus objectivist aesthetics, in his opinion, rests on the metaphysical relationship of the transcendence of the subject towards the object, while subjectivist aesthetics starts from the idea of beauty as a subjective attribute of the work and is therefore permeated with the relativism of aesthetic judgment. Tkalčić ultimately connects the concept of creativity with the concept of events as a “final” or “unfinished” self-movement or self-transcendence, of course through the mediation of man, of “totality” as a combination of the “realized” and the “unrealized”. Tkalčić’s understanding of art and creativity is therefore based on Marx’s materialist philosophy or dialectical materialism as an attempt at a “philosophical-transmetaphysical realization of metaphysical philosophy”, and therefore the ultimate meaning of events or creativity can be reduced precisely to absolute freedom as the praxis or self-production of material being.
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Publication date:
5.5.2026.
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