Abstract

ZUNIGA, JOSÉ F.. THE DUAL NATURE OF ART AND THE DESTINY OF THE HUMAN. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2022, vol.71, suppl.9, pp.57-73.  Epub June 25, 2024. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v71n9supl.96742.

The Double Nature of Art and The Destiny of Humans Starting from an analysis of the ambiguous position that art has in today’s world (between autonomy and heter-onomy), two theses are formulated. Firstly, an ontological thesis, according to which art is constituted by a double impulse: on the one hand, a constructive impulse, present in all social and human praxis; on the other, a destructive impulse, which acts on the margins of reason and society and exceeds them. Secondly, a practical thesis, according to which the adequate tension between both impulses is the condition of possibility of human freedom. Through a confrontation between Hegel and Kafka, keeping both hypotheses in mind, I propose a displacement in the definition of the human being as rational animals. To conclude, I point out that it is, ultimately, a debate about the destiny of the human being.

Keywords : G. W. Hegel; F. Kafka; art; human being.

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