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Creativity and Aesthetic Experience: The Problem of the Possibility of Beauty and Sensitiveness

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1. CREATIVITY, POETICS AND AESTHETICS Creativity may be regarded as one of the most complicated primary categories of aesthetics, and one that is most closely connected with such traditional aesthetic categories as beauty, for instance. The fulfilment of creative work is most visible in a work of art and refers to aesthetics as a sphere of expression/manifestation. Any discussion between an artist and an art philosopher or an art critic turns into a contention of a sort concerning the question of what comes first – manifestation or perception and evaluation. The view that creative work is feasible in any sphere of cultural activity as well as in science and technology, used to predominate in philosophy, especially in twentieth century philosophy. In a historical perspective creative work can be subdivided into: 1. The Divine Creation known as creatio ex nihilis; 2. human creative work known since Kant’s times; and 3. artistic creative work that is closer to aesthetics. One can’t separate aesthetics from philosophy entirely, just as to a great extent the notion of creation runs far back into the past of Christianity, where the above motto creatio ex nihilis has for many centuries been the prerogative of artistic creation and an artist’s unattainable dream. Creativity attains a special significance in the context of the life phenomenology expounded by Professor Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, who accentuates the transcendental significance of creation in the process of selfinterpretation.1 The tendency and works of life phenomenology combine all the above-mentioned aspects of creation, illuminating the transcendental nature of creation that was sparsely touched upon by Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenological philosophy. This approach broadens the borders of aesthetics, placing it into the wide amplitude of human experience, not simply reducing it to art philosophy in the narrow meaning of positivism. The unity of creation and poetics in life phenomenology clears the way to the onto-poiesis of beingness that is Professor Tymieniecka’s outstanding achievement in the sphere of life phenomenology.