UDC 18
Referring to the works of E. Burke and I. Kant, the author tries to trace how the idea of the sublime has been introduced into the European worldview as a new aesthetic and moral value. Why is the benchmark in the evaluation of a work of art is changing today, when the starting point is no longer an eternally beautiful sample, but the power of the emotional impact that the work can cause, and what is the experience of the sublime, and is it possible? The author tries to understand how the traumatic experience of the 20th century negative anthropology is embedded in the fabric of social life; how cultural and emotional structures of perception change, and whether Pain, Despair, Suffering or Humiliation can be the key to the sublime. The article shows that the experience of the GULAG, Auschwitz, the poetics of destruction and the difficulties of expressing this experience in works of art indicate the ambivalence of the sublime. The perception of the Beautifulness, the Goodness, the Order, the Sacrality, as well as the experience of Pain, Suffering, Violence, Humiliation and Horror, save from decay and elevate above the unbearability of Being when the experience becomes an ideal ethical state of life.
traumatic experience, transcendental experience of transgression, sublime, perception structures, fate
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