En lovsång till sårbarheten : Om Hannah Arendts ord kring behovet av en delad värld och det estetiska trossubjekt som kan göra den möjlig

• Main Author: Persson, Victor
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för estetik 2018
• Subjects: vulnerability; judgement; Arendt; Descartes; Kant; faith; darśan; capitalistic subject; aesthetic subject; aesthetics; sårbarhet; omdöme; tro; kapitalistiskt subjekt; estetiskt subjekt; estetik; Philosophy; Filosofi
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-365192

The aim of this essay is to show how people’s ability to make judgements is based on an attitude towards vulnerability and an aesthetic subject. In order to do this, the essay begins with an examination of a prevailing capitalistic subject form. Using Hannah Arendt’s theories about the human condition – labor, work, and action – and the loss of a common or interpersonal world, the essay stipulates that this capitalistic subject is narcissistic, world-less and hence unable to make sound judgements. Moreover, the capitalistic subject is unable to have faith in the world.The alternative that this essay seeks to present and examine – the aesthetic subject – can on the other hand indeed have faith in the world. In order to explain this, a philosophic and exegetic analysis of the concept of the Christian faith is carried out, leading to the transcendent root visio. Since the essay is searching for an aesthetic alternative, visio is then analogously compared with the Hindu counterpart darśan, which differs from visio in that it is an immanent rather than a transcendent ability. In this essay, it is concluded that to be aesthetic is to make oneself vulnerable by having immanent faith in the world. Since this vulnerable and aesthetic subject acknowledges the world with an immanent faith it is also able to make judgements. Differently put, the essay argues that this vulnerable and faithful state is necessary for humans trying to make sound judgements.