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The literary theory section at the Institute of Bulgarian Literature discussed the work of junior research associate Atanas Natev - Purpose or End-in-itself of Art? (Critical Observations on Neo-Kantian Aesthetics in Bulgaria). The author dedicated his work to the problem of the penetration of neo-Kantian aesthetics in Bulgaria - he examines the works of its supporters and the results of their activities. The work is divided into seven chapters: Theoretical zigzags of a thesis; The psychological vow of aesthetics; Purpose or social aimlessness of art; The specific purpose - social justification of art; Tendency and tendentiousness of art; Exiled knowledge and Aesthetic pleasure and art. The pivotal chapter is the fourth, which contains the author's aesthetic credo - in it he seeks to provide a scientific justification for his thesis on the specificity of art. According to Natev, the specificity of art (in the most general sense) comes not from the subject, not from the object, but from a special social need. Artistic images, after appropriate objectification, can become art only if they gain a public, if they enter social circulation.