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AUC PHILOSOPHICA ET HISTORICA, Vol 2018 No 1 (2018), 21–37
Odhalování, harmonizace a rytmus bezprostřednosti ve Whiteheadových a Bergsonových úvahách o roli uměleckého díla a povaze estetické zkušenosti
[The Revealing, Harmonization, and Rhythm of Immediacy in Whitehead’s and Bergson’s Writings about the Role of the Work of Art and about the Nature of Aesthetic Experience]
Miloš Ševčík
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/24647055.2017.18
published online: 18. 04. 2018
abstract
In this essay, the author seeks to demonstrate the remarkable resemblance between the ideas of Alfred North Whitehead and those of Henri Bergson concerning the role of art and aesthetic experience generally in revealing the appearance of immediate experience. The two philosophers agree that this reality is usually concealed from human considerations about practical possibilities of using reality, including considerations about the communicability of the nature of reality. Both men also agree that this revealing has the form of the harmonization of the usual unfocused experience of things and feelings. Nevertheless, in this article the author seeks to demonstrate that harmonization assumes the form of rhythmic arrangement, and art and aesthetic experience therefore generally show immediate reality as rhythm. The fact that immediate experience is rhythm appears, when seen from the standpoint of the conception of Whitehead and Bergson, to be natural, because all reality has the nature of a spectrum of rhythmic movements. By comparing the ideas of the two philosophers, the author aims not only to provide a more precise outline of their thinking on this subject, but also to point out that the similarities of their views enable us to explain them, make them more precise, and to develop them.
keywords: H. Bergson; A. N. Whitehead; immediacy; harmonization; rhythm
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