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Max Ryynänen

In Kitsch and Art Tomáš Kulka notes that natural landscapes cannot be called kitsch. Kitsch needs to be produced by a human being, he says. I agree with that. Experience-wise it is more complicated, though. Sometimes kitsch affects our experience of lands... see more

Doron Avital,Karolína Dolanská

The article takes as its starting point the work of Tomas Kulka on Kitsch and Art to further a philosophical move aiming at the very logical core of the question of art. In conclusion, the idea of Singular Rule is offered as capturing the defining logic o... see more

Vlastimil Zuska

This article attempts to critically reconsider some of the central motives in Tomáš Kulka’s aesthetics, especially his use of the term Gestalt and his concept of versions and alterations. In addition to his own objections, the author focuses on criticism ... see more

Lisa Giombini,Adrián Kvokacka

Editorial of ESPES Vol 8 No 2 (2019) 

Ondrej Krátký

Recipients always perceive texts in a successive and linear way. Often, the recipient’s perception of the text only lasts until the text has fulfilled the expectations the recipient has of it. Being well aware of this, authors build texts based on their g... see more

Boris Orlov

The notion of “projective aesthetics” is considered in this paper for the first time as a variant of the recourse to praxis that characterizes contemporary aesthetics and its “aesthetic involvement” (A. Berleant). Projective aesthetics involves the use of... see more

Jana Migašová

In the 19th century, a gradual reform of art education began, which achieved its peak in the 1930s. This process manifested itself in the form of schools with an explicit anti-academic spirit – the Bauhaus in Europe and Black Mountain College in the Unite... see more

Lisa Giombini

In this paper, I investigate one popular view in current methodological debate about musical ontology, namely, descriptivism. According to descriptivism, the task of musical ontology is to offer a description of the ‘structure of our thought’ (Kania 2008:... see more

Daniela Blahutková

Arnold Gehlen's use of the term posthistory can be traced back to his writings from the 50s. It occurs also in Zeit-Bilder. Zur Soziologie und Ästhetik der modernen Malerei (1960/1986), where his theory of pictorial racionality in art history is... see more

Slávka Kopcáková

BALOGH, Piroska – FÓRIZS, Gergely [eds.] (2018): Anthropologische Ästhetik in Mitteleuropa 1750–1850/ Anthropological Aesthetics in Central Europe 1750–1850. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag 2018. (Bochumer Quellen und Forschungen zum 18. Jahrhundert, 9.) 304 pp... see more

Jana Migašová,Peter Gurský

MAKKY, Lukáš (2019): Od zaciatku po koniec a ešte dalej: umenie v definicných súradniciach. [From the Beginning til the End and Beyond: The Art in Definitional Coordinates]. Prešov: Filozofická fakulta Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove, Opera Philosophica. ... see more

Sandra Zákutná

Kvokacka, A. – Migašová, J.: Súradnice estetiky, umenia a kultúry IV: Študovat estetiku: koncepcie, stratégie a súvislosti štúdia estetiky na Slovensku a v zahranicí. Prešov: Filozofická fakulta PU v Prešove 2019. ISBN 978-80-555-2310-1. 198 s.