The aesthetic

chronology of the 1956–1966 discussions and its philosophical framework

pp. 71-86

in: Edward Swiderski, The philosophical foundations of Soviet aesthetics, Berlin, Springer, 1979

Abstract

What is today commonly referred to by Soviet aestheticians as the esteticeskoe discussion took place during the decade 1956–1966. As stated in the Introduction and in Chapter I (1.2) the estetičeskoe discussion was the classic Soviet controversy about the philosophical foundations of aesthetics. Not only did this discussion thematize long-neglected but important questions (e.g. the nature of the beautiful), but it drew into the open some of the essential difficulties in conceptualizing aesthetic phenomena in Marxist-Leninist terms and categories.