The Issue of an Aesthetic Object and the Objectivity of Aesthetic Research. Ada Silberstein's Aesthetics

Abstract

The article is split into two parts. In the first one, author presents main concepts of the polish theories from the field of aesthetics in the first decade of the twentieth century. For this purpose tries to describe the philosophical assumptions of Michał Sobeski and Jakub Segał, what is the context for the next part of the article. In second part she sets out the Ada’s Silberstein methodological concepts about the aesthetic subject and aesthetic experience, which are, according Silberstein, the key to determine aesthetics as a separate science, independent of psychological processes. Author shows that the philosophical project of Silberstein, based on Husserl’s phenomenology, demonstrates the objectivity of aesthetic research.