Estetický prožitek jako transcendence daného – implikace Patočkova Negativního platonismu

This article explores the potential and expression of the aesthetic attitude as it is implied in Patočka’s writings, particularly in Negative Platonism (written in the early 1950s). It compares the transcensus of each perception, the simultaneously becoming aware of oneself and the negation of objectivity with features of the aesthetic experience, as it was conceived in twentieth-century aesthetics, and the extension of this movement in the chōrismos, absolute distance. Patočka’s original insight into the essence of aesthetic experience as a ‘leap into freedom’, as a kind of ontological reflection, abandoning the anthropological level and enabling a distance from fixed schemes of the movement of life, stems from a comparison with cognitive sciences and also with concepts of psychic distance and aesthetic attitude.