CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Nastic, Darjana |
|---|---|
| Title | The Play of Dance |
| Summary | Gadamer’s aesthetics provides us with a different way of looking at art – he has not given any definition of art, but he tried to explain it more closely. According to him, art is play. Even though he has not written about dance, his theory can be easily incorporated in dance aesthetics, and it is helpful for understanding the nature of dance, and more specifically, the nature of Argentine tango. In this paper I argue that Gadamer’s account answers some contemporary questions on aesthetics of dance, and it does better justice to aesthetic experience than aesthetic theories grounded in a subject/object dichotomy. Gadamer’s account grasps exactly the experience that happens in a tango dancer. |
| Supervisor | Weberman David |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/nastic_darjana.pdf |
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