Contents:
Preface;
Part 1 The Labyrinths of Aesthetics:
The problems of aesthetics;
The fetishes of aesthetics;
The myths of aesthetics;
The fears of aesthetics.
Part 2 On Aesthesis:
Demarcating aesthetics;
Basic categories for aesthetic analysis;
Conditions of possibility of aesthesis: the a priori;
The phenomenology of aesthesis: aesthetic latching-on and latched-by.
Part 3 Towards Prosaics:
Prosaics and poetics;
The tangents of prosaics;
The nutrients of prosaics;
The play of culture;
The horizons of prosaics.
Part 4 Semio-Aesthetics:
Thresholds of semiotic perception: sensation, discernment and regard;
The axis of the signic;
The axis of the symbolic;
Comparative view of both axes: the symbolic and the signic;
The non-axis of the obtuse;
Beyond semiosis to aesthesis;
Aesthetic enunciation and its dialogical character.
Part 5 Octadic Model for Aesthetics Analysis:
Rhetoric and its registers; Dramatics and its modalities;
The rhetoric-dramatic coupling;
Con-formations of the rhetoric-dramatic coupling.
Part 6 Matrixes and Identities:
The matrixes: a general approach;
Diachronic and synchronic perspective of cultural matrixes;
The family matrix;
The religion matrix;
The school matrix;
The medical matrix;
The occultist matrix;
The arts matrix.
Conclusions: matricial symbols and aesthetic games;
References;
Index.
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