Aesthetics of Pure Negativity: Article One. Methodological Principles of Understanding The Phenomenon of Aesthetics of Negativity

Abstract

The semantics of the modern space-time of history manifests itself as a categorical inadequacy in understanding the essential transformations of the relations between the humanity and history. The invasion of derivative reflections of theoretical research is caused by the neglect of the content of the basis and contradictions of history. The neglect of the latter has provoked a catastrophic situation, when such laws are manifested as the revenge of history for their neglect. The degradation and disintegration of the epistemological framework of theoretical knowledge caused by these reasons reduces the effectiveness of theoretical reflections because particularities can be studied through the whole but the whole cannot be understood on the basis of particularities. Still, particularities are also deconstructed, since the categories of knowledge of the postmodern period are deontologized and deconstructed as described by J. Derrida. In contrast to the universal categories of the classical period, which, being a single system, appeared in pairs, and the break of this parity in the non-classical era, the postclassic is accompanied by the disintegration of each of them. Under such conditions, there is a rigid transfusion of existing forms of being into negative semantics. Despite its non-obviousness (incomprehensivness), this transfusion is cruelly experienced at all levels of social structures. The wounded heart and confused consciousness of individuals, whom are atomized, tired of themselves and of other individuals, do not find solace in the distorted system of public interests, where universally significant and individually significant are in a relationship of antinomies. Under such conditions, there is an annihilation of development and the displacement of the essential features of a person into a specific space of negative aesthetics. This is the aesthetics of replacing the meanings of life with the meanings of deprivation, which Schelling considered the defining condition of the phenomenon of uglyness. This paper offers a vision of the methodological foundations of understanding the phenomenon of aesthetics of negativity.