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D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd.
23 cm.
xv, 155p.
Hardcover
Rs. 200.00
This refreshingly original work presents a
totally new methodology for understanding the concept of aesthetic
experience. The traditional model of explaining this experience through
the dichotomy of the creator, beholder or critic on the one hand, and
the object of art, on the other is challenged and replaced by the new
model which the author prefers to call dialogue -- a dialogue
between the subject and the object, I and Thou. The
epistemological and ontological methods which rely heavily on the
bifurcation of the subject and the object fails to reveal the true
nature of the experiential whole that forms the real core of aesthetic
experience. The author’s innovative methodology holds the promise for
transcending the bounds of all such limitations and distinctions. Most
significantly, the conception of “art as dialogue” is stipulated to work
not as a means, but as an end, i.e., the consummation of art-experience
itself. In this scheme the principle of relationship, not the substance,
constitutes the reality of aesthetic experience and the model allows one
to encompass within its scope the pre-linguistic, linguistic and
trans-linguistic phases of the relationship between the man and the art.
Dr. Biswas’ long training in Phenomenology and Existentialism makes
his study of Martin Buber and Michael Polanyi lucid and stimulating.
And his immense interest in Modern Indian Philosophy results in a
superb analysis of Tagore’s and Radhakrishnan’s aesthetic approach.
About The
Author
Dr. Goutam Biswas, an eminent
scholar of Phenomenology and Existentialism, did his M.A. in Philosophy
from Visvabharati University, Santiniketan and obtained his Ph.D. from
the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur on "Martin Buber's Philosophical Anthropology." He
has keen interest in Aesthetics, Philosophical Anthropology and Modern
Indian Philosophy which colour all his philosophical works. Being an
indefatigable researcher he has made a number of important contributions
to many distinguished journals. Currently a Reader in Philosophy at the
University of North-Bengal, Dr. Biswas has visited France under the
Indo-French Cultural Exchange Programme.
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