Open AccessJ. W. Goethe: The Way of Life and Philosophy of Art
Author(s) -
Александр Владимирович Перцев
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
koinon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-5914
pISSN - 2782-5906
DOI - 10.15826/koinon.2021.02.3.030
Subject(s) - genius , existentialism , empiricism , epistemology , path (computing) , philosophy , everyday life , isolation (microbiology) , aesthetics , literature , art history , art , computer science , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , programming language
Is it possible today, within the framework of the history of philosophy, to reconstruct the life path of one of the philosophers, resorting to the recipes of subsequent researchers — especially when these followers did their creative works a couple of centuries after those who they should describe? Today empiricism dominates in the humanities: flat facts are grasped on a large scale and summed up in everyday spaces, and the results are correct only here and now. It is the way to write the biographies of the “big masses”. But some geniuses — those who live “in isolation” — not relying on standards, not laying flat, unwillingly turning their lives back, rising above the bustle. To what extent can one describe this path in the manner of existentialism — moving from inauthentic existence to borderline situations and, further, to genuine existence, which was never properly built?