Pragmatic Deconstruction of the Art in the Philosophical Anthropology of J. Poulain

Abstract

The article considers the conception of art by J. Poulain, prominent expert in the analytical philosophy and the pragmatism. The human in a pragmatic era seeks to operate himself, to operate his relation to the world and to another proceeding from the blind power of consensus, proceeding from a simple consent with himself, with another, and with the world. In this context the art is the sphere of human experimenting where the esthetic pleasure without means of concept is followed by a judgment about the forms of life validity. The art of modernism becomes a sensual embodiment of idea when it replaces the image of a real subject with the consumer action closed on itself, imitating the autoaffective automatism of the human speech. The poetry of the 20th century (Ch. Milosz, I. Bachman, M. Tsvetaeva, P. Celan) imitates the same verbal prosopopeia, defining a source of poetic judgment in a self-hearing as a authenticity criteria of any proposition.