SZTUKA JAKO ONTOLOGICZNY EKSPERYMENT

Abstract

In the text –which is an exercise in the genealogy of the contemporary – I raise theissue of using art as a „model” for the ontology of the world. I look at how art functions in this way within the tradition extending from Immanuel Kant, through German Idealism, Jena Romanticism and Martin Heidegger, to Gilles Deleuze and Jean-Luc Nancy. A turning point in this tradition is the shift from conceiving ofthe work of art –and consequently of the world as such –in terms of a closed upon itself, „organic” whole, towards treating it as an event and describing in terms of a set of relations, an experiment and a presentation of presentation. This tradition is one of the transformative paths of philosophy, one of the ways which have led us towhere we are „today”.