HOMO AESTHETICUS IN THE AESTHETICS OF FORMALISM

Abstract

The article reviews the main trends in the interpretation of human sensuality by German aesthetics of the 19th century. The carried out analysis has showed the limitations not only of a purely psychological treatment by esthetics of «empathy» but also by aesthetics of formalism, which reduces the concept of sensuality to the forms of sensory perception — hearing, sight. Further understanding of the problem gives in the long term a prospect to achieve a new level of opposite approaches correlation.