Aesthetics and conceptions of creativity in the philosophy of Russia abroad
Abstract
The article is devoted to analyzing aesthetic ideas and concepts of creativity in the philosophy of the Russian abroad. The aesthetic works of V.V. Veidle, N.N. Yevreinov, N.O. Lossky, I.A. Ilyin are analyzed as examples. Veydle in his book "The Dying of Art" presented a Christian view of the crisis of art and the causes of its decline in the twentieth century. Yevreinov in his "Revelation of Art" explored the psychology of creativity and developed a psychoanalytic view of art, he also showed its connection to religion. Lossky in his book "The World as Realization of Beauty. Fundamentals of Aestheticism" developed a concept of beauty based on intuitionism and personalism. In his treatise "Foundations of Art", Ilyin determined the criterion of artistic perfection and provided a theoretical basis for the methodology of "concrete aesthetic analysis of art". Each of the thinkers mentioned above sought to discover new paths in aesthetics to overcome abstract scientific theories that were claimed to interfere with the full-fledged perception of art. The thinkers of Russian emigration regarded aesthetics not as a separate, autonomous scientific field, but as an integral and important part of human life and existence in general, they insisted on the need for synthesis of aesthetics, ontology and philosophical anthropology, with each of them formulating their personal understanding of beauty, the relationship between art and religion. Common to all of them was the view that art reflects the spiritual state of man, the level of perfection in culture, the relationship between creativity and religious outlook. Aesthetics in the works of the thinkers of Russian abroad is an important part of the development of Russian religious philosophy of the twentieth century.
