Estetologijos akiračiai: prasmių kilmės tyrinėjimai

ENCreativity of a human being cannot be separated from his personal life. A lot of attention in the first chapter is given to the significant personal events, which inspire theoretical reflections. Thus, the entire book is dedicated to the author’s wife Joana Ulinauskaite-Mureikiene, who participated in the Lithuanian resistance to the Soviet regime and the Uprising of Norilsk. Aesthetology is addressing not only the creation of meanings, but also the origin of existentials and human values, both individual and social. These values, or meanings, are the results of human emotional experience, which even tually settles into emotional memory. While invoking the impressions of personal experiences, the author reveals the history and theory of the creation of aesthetology, highlighting its conceptual origins. By emphasizing emotional sensitivity, kindness, compassion and empathy along with his own insights, he allows the reader to find oneself in the maelstrom of spiritual problems - hatred, exclusion, ingratitude, indifference, disrespect etc. Encountering them encourages critical thinking and intuition. Several generations of the Soviet and Post-soviet era were deprived of the culture of humanities. Therefore, methods of various systems of education developing the spirituality are extremely important. While discussing the spiritual and creative integrity of education, the author delves into non-European, non-traditional cultures, synergetics, semiotics, theory of information and communication. Reflections on educational problems brings him closer to the vision of aesthetology in which spirituality is of a special importance. The writer addresses the world of art and the history of philosophy, hermeneutics, phenomenology, psychology, education and aesthetics. He intro duces his own concept of pajauta (gr. ~ aisthesis) as an essential phenomenon of aesthetology.Pajauta is being considered a spiritual power as important as thought, faith, imagination, attentiveness, memory and other phenomena. The first chapter aims to make aesthetology more comprehensible to both professional and non-professional readers. Aiming to present aesthetology as a solid and multifaceted goal, the author discusses his thoughts and insights as a philosophical discourse in logical, more rigorous academic formulations in the second part of this work. Chapter II - Aesthetology in a Nutshell: essential concepts, their connections with philosophical anthropology and other sciences The 21st century has inherited a rich variety of aesthetic activity branches, practices and explanatory theories. There have appeared more possibilities for new interpretations which allow moving beyond the boundaries of traditional aesthetic concepts in order to create new concepts and models of theoretical insights. The author aims to reveal the fact that, besides thinking, believing, imagination, fantasy, memory, speaking, will and other human spiritual powers, a very important role is played by senses, which comprise the semantic core of aesthetics activity. It is argued that senses are the major part of the object of aesthetology, i.e., the aesthetic activity. Sense as a spiritual power creates a personified meaning of values. It is the source of origin of meaning, opening the roads for both value internalization and their establishment, and manifesting itself in various ways of meaning establishment which differ from verbal and logical ones as they assign only verbal or logical form of meanings. The author also emphasizes the importance of aesthetology for educology and pedagogical practice. On the basis of interdisciplinary and transdiscipli- nary paradigms and thematic analysis, other concepts important for aesthetology are being discussed. The work systematically grounds both the possibility of a new discipline in the humanities and its necessity [...].