THE CONCEPT OF AESTHETIC INTELLIGENCE IN CULTURAL DISCOURSE

Abstract

The work first explores and analyzes the concept of “aesthetic experience” and its understanding through philosophical categories (qualia, experience, transcendence), and also focuses on the formation of the concept of “aesthetic intelligence” as a category that integrates sensory perception and rational understanding of works of art. The methodological basis is the axiological, phenomenological and semiotic approaches developed in the works of leading philosophers I. Kant, T. Adorno, M. Heidegger, W. Eco, G. Humbrecht. Special attention is paid to the coordinate approach described in the work “Philosophy of Creativity” by the modern ukrainian philosopher Valeriy Sivers.The article justifies how the concept of “aesthetic intelligence” reveals itself as the ability of the individual to combine the experience of contemplation of art with transcendental experience and cultural meaning formation. The relationship between the concepts of “survival”, “qualia”, “transcendentality” and “art” in the context of modern thinking is revealed. The concept of “aesthetic intelligence” implies a person’s ability to perceive, analyse, interpret and create art. The result of the article is that “aesthetic intelligence” is a way of thinking through which an individual can make a transition from external to internal and backward, thus gaining aesthetic experience through art which he can share with other individuals (observers). Aesthetic intelligence can be defined as the synthetic ability of a person to combine sensory-emotional experience with symbolic understanding (in our case) – with the interpretation of works of art.