The Relevance of Teaching the Beautiful (Time, Past, Future, History)

Zoltán István HEVESI
The Relevance of Teaching the Beautiful (Time, Past, Future, History)
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PhD student, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj
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hevesizoli@yahoo.com
Abstract: 

In my study I am trying to bring attention to some aspects of the so-called alternative pedagogical methods: how they can be interpreted in the horizon of hermeneutics and of their claim of being a universal philosophical system; the issues pertaining to the reasoning that justifies the existence of art raised in Gadamer’s study entitled The Relevance of the Beautiful [1] – and mainly its pedagogical aspects – how these are brought up in the world of a consumer society. Every time art has to redefine its own reason for being and its relationship to tradition, this fact has a great impact on the question of teaching art.

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[1] Hans-Georg Gadamer, A szép aktualitása (The Relevance of the Beautiful) (Budapest: T-TWINS, 1994)