THE NOTION OF AESTHETIC ATTITUDE IN SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) in For a moral of ambiguity (2005 [1947]), specifically in the topic entitled “The aesthetic attitude”, devoted herself to thinking a conception of aesthetics through the existentialist definition of freedom. Freedom, as an original human movement, is what allows the s...

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Autor: Da Motta, Lucas Joaquim
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2020
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
Repositório:Pólemos (Brasília)
Idioma:português
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/26957
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/polemos/article/view/26957
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Atitude estética. Beauvoir. Engajamento. Liberdade.
Aesthetic attitude. Beauvoir. Engagement. Freedom.
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Resumo:Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) in For a moral of ambiguity (2005 [1947]), specifically in the topic entitled “The aesthetic attitude”, devoted herself to thinking a conception of aesthetics through the existentialist definition of freedom. Freedom, as an original human movement, is what allows the subject to discover the reason for their own actions; thus, an aesthetic attitude intends to affirm any work of aesthetic nature (such as a literary book, a painting or a sculpture) as a fact that the creator, that is, the one who writes, paints or sculpts it, will try to justify as long as such creator is a matter of the work produced. Still, the aesthetic attitude is only possible if there is a temporality, and the present will be the fundamental element for such an act to be practiced. Therefore, this article aims to discuss in an introductory way how Beauvoir approached a certain conception of aesthetics based on the authentic movement of man towards freedom.