BEAUTIFUL THINGS AND MEINONG'S OBJECT THEORY: AESTHETIC PROPERTIES IN FRONT OF US?

Bruno Langlet (1)

1 IHP - Institut d'histoire de la philosophie

There is no complete theory of aesthetics in Meinong's works, but more or less sparse remarks about the way Object Theory is to deal with so-called aesthetic properties. The apprehension and status of such properties mark anew me-inongian problems about properties as abstracted from things, and as objects. Their status in object theory is to be clarified as they involve notions of internal and external dependence. Such notions are operative in Meinong's work since the psychological period, and they are linked with concepts of objects, higher order objects and objectives, which appear here to be also problematic regarding aesthetical objects. The late meinongian feeling-based theory aims to ground directedness toward aesthetic properties, and to preserve their occurrence in complex entities and their particular realistic status.

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Philosophy

Bruno Langlet. BEAUTIFUL THINGS AND MEINONG'S OBJECT THEORY: AESTHETIC PROPERTIES IN FRONT OF US?. Meinong-Studien The Aesthetics of the Graz School, 2009, 4. ⟨hal-02397017⟩