Original scientific paper
LUIGI STEFANINI’S PERSONALISTIC CONCEPTION OF THE ART
Vani Roščić
; Department of Philosophy of the University of Zadar
Abstract
A whole ray of aesthetical problems like artistic expression, style, feeling,
which were opened in the works of Bennedeto Croce and Giovanni
Gentile, found a close interpreter and critic in Luigi Stefanini. For him,
art was an “absolute word” because of the completeness through which
the work lives its own life, because of the autonomy through which the
form signifies nothing else but itself. In the art “to be” and “to express”
are the same thing. The work includes infinity, because it carries in itself
everything necessary to show its own wholeness. As from its core, the
form of the work is created in the activity of the artist, so the principle
of the unity of the work is in the person of the author rather than in the
intimate purpose of the work itself. Although in his thoughts on art he
accepts idealistic themes, Stefanini gives them a totally new direction
through personalistic foundation and for this his thought even today
does not lose its importance in the speculative discourse of the contemporary
Italian aesthetics.
Keywords
Stefanini; personalism; art; form; invention; originality
Hrčak ID:
216844
URI
Publication date:
15.7.2015.
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