Abstract
In this paper, I present some concepts of Hegel’s philosophy of art, aiming to interpret a cultural-political situation, namely, Bolsonarism in contemporary Brazil. I present the ideas in the following order: (a) the modes of comprehension, mainly through the distinction between the poetic and the prosaic modes; (b) the conception of “Action [Handlung]” as a category of art, by means of its three levels: State of the World [Weltzustand], Situation [Situation], and Action itself [Handlung als solche]; (c) an evaluation of the anachronism of the ideas of myth and hero in contemporary times, through a reflection mediated by the categories of sublation [Aufhebung] and history.
Highlights
In this paper, I present some concepts of Hegel’s philosophy of art, aiming to interpretProblemata: R
A cultural-political situation, namely, Bolsonarism3 in contemporary Brazil. This analysis is motivated by the nickname given to Brazilian current president: the “Myth”
I take into consideration a set of informal political propaganda and cultural behaviors, propagated in social media on the internet, which associate the support to Bolsonaro to the nationalist, military and heroic imaginary
Summary
I present some concepts of Hegel’s philosophy of art, aiming to interpret. Art has a special tie to intuition, and to representation and imagination in the poetic field, since the poetic art (different from all the other singular kinds of art) has as instrument not material elements related to visual or auditory senses (like architecture, sculpture, painting, and music), but language and the representational content In this sense, fantasy fulfills a very important role: “Fantasy [Phantasie] is the center in which the universal and the being, the own and the being-found, the internal and the external, are made into a complete unity”.15” We can understand here that the imagination, by means of fantasy, is able to guide the content either towards concepts (allowing the cognitive activity to be conducted towards thinking) or towards making the sign and the meaning into sensible representation. Before the predominance of the scientific and philosophical worldview, art was not the unique mean of presentation of spiritual and cultural contents, but nowadays it serves still a specific function in its mode of presentation, in the questioning and in the opening of the possibility of reframing reality
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