The individual self in search of the livability of its life questions concerning contemporary aesthetics in view of present sensibility

Abstract

This essay interprets the aesthetic (that is founded in aisthesis) with respect to conceptions of an individual, sensitive self which came to the fore since 18th-century anthropology. For the sake of the livability of its life, this self must inevitably get involved in extra-ordinary latitudes of a sensibility which can demand too much of it at any time and which cannot get sublated in a largely normalized life. Final considerations refer to questions of practical forms of life in which that interest presently takes shape.

Keywords

• aisthesis
• aesthetics
• sensibility
• self
• life forms
• normality