Cathelein Aaftink

Beauty in Structure

IAEA2008

beauty theoryexperiential narratives

experiential qualities

of the first order/experiencing

of the second order/discourse

first moment

focusing of perceptionsignificance and meaningthoughtlessness

sensesno selfstillnessbodily perceptivitypleasureself-evidencejust right

second phase

furthering

bringing in other notionstransference

Weil:

“In everything which gives us the pure authentic feeling of beauty there really is the presence of God. There is as it were an incarnation in the world and it is indicated by beauty.The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.” (150-51)

Schjeldahl:

“Beauty is a melting away of uncertainty in a state of pleasure, which when recalled to the mind bears the imprimatur of truth.” (58)

truth, the godly, transcendence, personal concerns,

perfection, the divine, the ideal, spirit, Beauty the idea,

the past, art, the good, the absolute, virtue, authenticity,

being, existence, the metaphysical, life, reality,

eternity, immortality, love, soul, happiness, the self,

goodness, virtue, eternity, freedom, flux, authenticity,

justice, time, hope, prospect, meaning, fate, purpose,

wholeness, unity, the unknowable, Ideas,

inexpressible, the existential, ideology, utopia

--displeasuring the experience--

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