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What is today commonly referred to by Soviet aestheticians as the esteticeskoe discussion took place during the decade 1956–1966. As stated in the Introduction and in Chapter I (1.2) the estetičeskoe discussion was the classic Soviet controversy about the philosophical foundations of aesthetics. Not only did this discussion thematize long-neglected but important questions (e.g. the nature of the beautiful), but it drew into the open some of the essential difficulties in conceptualizing aesthetic phenomena in Marxist-Leninist terms and categories.
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Swiderski, E.M. (1979). The Aesthetic: Chronology of the 1956–1966 Discussions and its Philosophical Framework. In: The Philosophical Foundations of Soviet Aesthetics. Sovietica, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9434-8_3
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