TY - BOOK AU - Aleksei Fyodorovich Losev PY - 2013 CY - , Germany PB - Biblion SN - 9783866883093 TI - The Dialectic of Artistic Form DO - 10.3726/b12049 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1056374 N2 - The early aesthetics of Alexei Losev is one of the best examples of pre-communist Russian thought and one of the last attempts to build a grand philosophical system on the basis of pagan and Christian Neoplatonism, Russian personalism, phenomenology, and the dialectical trend in German Idealism. Losev's brilliant dialectical-phenomenological thinking anticipates many twentieth-century discoveries in phenomenological and dialectical aesthetics within a coherent and elegant account of artistic form. Losev's insights into the nature of aesthetic perception and artistic form also anticipate many recent discoveries in neurobiological aesthetics, thus harmonizing the phenomenological approach in aesthetics with the scientific. The translation of Losev's aesthetic treatise is prefaced by a thorough analysis of Losev's sources and an outline of the continuing relevance of his aesthetic theory to present-day aesthetics. KW - dialectical tetractys, antinomies of fact, antinomies of myth, antinomies of adequateness, eidetic types LA - German ER -