Abstract
Temporality is often considered as a transcendental condition of the manifestation of aesthetic experience, which, however, is challenged by Michel Henry, who distinguishes two ways of appearing. Henry believes that the essence of temporality is nihility, which cannot bestow on things any reality. The imposition of the structure of temporality on aesthetic experience would only deprive the experience of its living reality. As a mode of life, aesthetic experience constitutes an important moment of life's self-transformation and self-growth, and therefore only in life's feeling of itself can aesthetic experience be manifested as what it is.
First Page
58
Last Page
64
Recommended Citation
Liang, Can. 2020. "On the Non-Temporality of Aesthetic Experience: Case Study of Michel Henry's Criticism of Temporality." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 40, (4): pp.58-64. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol40/iss4/13
