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In the last chapter it was asserted that the Soviet concern for the nature of the aesthetic as such had its origins in the question about the aesthetic specificity of art. This last question could not be satisfactorily answered until the objectivity and nature of the aesthetic were established. However, a complete account of the nature of the aesthetic could not be limited to an analysis of the objective criteria for the emergence of aesthetic properties in things. As conceived by the aestheticians of the period, the aesthetic involved the object (the aesthetic property or quality)and the subject in a specific relation.
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Swiderski, E.M. (1979). The Aesthetic: The Societalists and Naturists. In: The Philosophical Foundations of Soviet Aesthetics. Sovietica, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9434-8_4
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