Open AccessLessing's aesthetics and the idea of subjectivity
Author(s) -
Iva Draškić-Vićanović
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-081X
pISSN - 0351-2274
DOI - 10.2298/theo0901045d
Subject(s) - subjectivity , enlightenment , aesthetics , connotation , meaning (existential) , context (archaeology) , philosophy , object (grammar) , interpretation (philosophy) , power (physics) , key (lock) , epistemology , literature , art , linguistics , history , ecology , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , biology
In the text Lessing's Aesthetics and the Idea of Subjectivity has been analysed the meaning of the term 'enlightenment'. In this context the author offers an unusual interpretation of the term enlightenment - through the prism of the idea of subjectivity - as the power of human mind to cast the light and give intonation to it's object. In this paper the thought of G. E. Lessing has been recognized as the birthplace of this connotation of the term enlightenment. Using the analysis of Lessing's key thesis in his famous Laokoon, author develops her thesis that an important aspect of the idea of subjectivity in eighteenth century has been formed within the Lessing's philosophy