La asimetria de la estética de Schopenhauer

The aesthetics of Schopenhauer is strongly influenced by the systematic nature of his philosophy, which claims to follow a “single thought”. His attempt, in fact, was to combine the aesthetic experience to a kind of knowledge removed from the yoke of the will, which would witness the artistic production and reception of a work of art, both directed at the objective understanding of the essence of things. Therein lies the root of the asymmetry, found in it, between the appearance of conception and that of the completion of the work (on the side of the artist), as well as between the time of involvement and that of the evaluation (on the side of the viewer ). In consequence of this asymmetry, an abstract view of the process of preparation of the work is combined with the impoverishment of its reception – in the name, finally, of a “principle of authority“ who can not reconcile the need for originality, typical of the artist, with the ability to recognize and, why not, to update it, due to the viewer.