"What does the question of the purpose of life have to do with aesthetic experience? Doesn't the teleological question belong rather to metaphysics or ethics? To say that the aesthetic question consists in reflecting on the meaning of individual and collective life seems provocative. Yet aesthetic reflection on life is precisely connected with this challenge: it therefore tends to identify itself not only with teleology, but also with the philosophy of history and metaphysics. Whether one affirms that life has meaning or denies it, the horizon within which this question is placed has, in contemporary times, very often been closely connected with aesthetics, which has thus had the audacity to pose the fundamental problem of existence. (p. 14)"
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Mario Perniola
Mario Perniola (20 May 1941 – 9 January 2018) was an Italian philosopher, professor of aesthetics and author.
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