The Sensible Liberated – Paperback

Description

Author(s): Robert Tirvaudey
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Publisher Imprint: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
BISAC: General

This study reconstructs Ludwig Feuerbach’s aesthetics from his critique of religion, materialism, anthropology, and philosophy of sensibility. Although Feuerbach never developed a systematic theory of art, his writings provide the foundations for an aesthetics grounded in the sensible, embodied, and finite world. The central argument is that aesthetic experience emerges when religious transcendence is transformed rather than simply rejected. Beauty, pleasure, contemplation, and love can be understood without reference to a divine or metaphysical source. The sensible is not an inferior degree of reality but the primary field in which human beings encounter nature, other bodies, and themselves. Aesthetic contemplation therefore becomes a mode of rediscovering reality after the critique of projection. Art occupies an important but non-exclusive position within this process: aesthetics ultimately exceeds art because sensibility precedes artistic representation. The study further traces Feuerbach’s influence on Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, showing how material, social, genealogical, and unconscious dimensions progressively deepen the critique of transcendence.