We invite you to take part in the fifth edition of the “Ion Ianoși” National Conference on Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, dedicated this year to the personality of Professor Ion Ianoși. We propose a dialogue on the theme of the sublime, as approached by Professor Ianoși in many of his works. We believe that this theme is still topical today, not only in artistic manifestations but also in aesthetic thinking. The sublime is the notion capable of accounting for the complexity of aesthetic, ethical and philosophical states, and Professor Ianoși considered that the sublime is “the most ethical of the aesthetic qualities of man” (Estetica, 1975, p. 127), and noted a nuanced correlation between the aesthetic and the religious within the sublime.
To what extent can the heightened associative taste of our century benefit from the sublime's openings towards various directions of cultural research? Can the Kantian meanings of the sublime still offer answers today to the moral and aesthetic problems of contemporary society? What are the causes for which the sublime, as an aesthetic mode, is knowledge and understanding of life and of the major ethical imperatives? Here are some of the possible questions to which we await answers, starting from the numerous works of Professor Ion Ianoși, full of generous ideas.
We await your proposals until 30 April 2017 01 May 2017 at the address: cciif.fil.unibuc@filosofie.unibuc.ro
Abstract: 250-300 words
Personal data: (surname, first name, affiliation, email)
Organisers:
Prof. Dr. Mihaela Pop
PhD candidate Oana Şerban