Abstract

ARAUJO, Adéle Cristina Braga  and  RABELO, Josefa Jackline. The social function of the arts and its unfoldings in the aesthetic constitution of the social being. Acta Educ. [online]. 2023, vol.45, e58397.  Epub Jan 02, 2023. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v45i1.58397.

The purpose of this article is to situate the social function of the arts in the aesthetic construction of the social being. It is theoretical-bibliographic research in light of the Lukacsian aesthetical legacy. The main source used for the development of this study is the systematized work of Georg Lukács: Aesthetics: the specificity of the aesthetic. The complexity of the art provides, albeit for a brief moment, an elevation that leads to an encounter between the individual and humankind. This discussion is based on the formative process of the arts. Catharsis is presented as the main category of analysis, based on the understanding that it is in everyday life that the sensations of capturing social beings in the world are extracted. It is in the development of human senses that social beings become aesthetic and grow as a human race. Indeed, briefly, the potentialities of creating and enjoying art under the logic of capitalist sociability are understood as dispersed, since the state of exploitation refuses to elevate everyone to the spiritual and material wealth of society. Moreover, the need to conjecture another social form that makes human-objective conditions capable of providing genuine cathartic moments possible to the whole of humanity is considered.

Keywords : catharsis; aesthetic education; humankind.

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