Естетическо

A book that respects the scale of spiritual synthesis! Thirty years of condensation of the author's thought into one Main goal: relief compaction of the contours of the aesthetic sketch bequeathed by Marx and Engels. Double and triple casting and polishing of each fragment with theoretical significance for art and its precise incorporation into the logical structure of Marxism. Historical and conceptual analysis of the basic aesthetic concepts - from the idealistic formulation to the Marxist synthesis of their real content: theoretical substantiation of each aesthetic principle in view of the internal logic of Marxist philosophy. This approach elevates Friedlander above the narrow interpretation of the aesthetic ideas of Marx and Engels as an expression of their personal artistic judgments, devoid of theoretical significance; replacing them with the general principles of historical materialism or using them to confirm the statement that "we have yet to create a Marxist theory of artistic creativity" (M. N. Pokrovsky). Friedlander convincingly proves that the aesthetic theory of Marxism, although not formally completed and systematized, is one of the aspects of the overall revolutionary worldview of K. Marx and F. Engels, inextricably linked to their common principled party position" (4).

Despite the "conspiracy of silence" towards Marxism on the part of official bourgeois science, in the middle of the last century it was already a respectable reality. But his aesthetic theory was "rediscovered" only in the 1930s-1940s by Soviet scientists. This temporarily limited the perimeter of its impact on world aesthetic thought; slowed down the formation of Marxist aesthetics; exacerbated the international controversy over the theoretical significance of Marx's aesthetic concept. And the prejudices towards it, the doubts about its very existence and even about the possibility of building aesthetics on the principles of historical materialism, are more peripheral than the traditional bourgeois skepticism towards Marxism as a whole. At first glance, the late discovery of Marx's aesthetic heritage is a simple anomaly. In fact, a complex of reasons of a scientific, social, ideological, aesthetic and bibliographic nature intersect here. Together, they determine the unique fate of this heritage. Their study is the subject of this article.