The social function of the arts and its unfoldings in the aesthetic constitution of the social being

• Autor(a) principal: Araujo, Adele Cristina Braga
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Rabelo, Josefa Jackline
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Acta Scientiarum. Education (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciEduc/article/view/58397
• topic: catharsis; aesthetic education; human gender.; catarsis; educación estética; género humano.; catarse; educação estética; gênero humano.

The purpose of this article is to situate the social function of the arts in the aesthetic construction of the social being. It is theoretical-bibliographic research in light of the lukacsian aesthetical legacy. The main source used for the development of this study is the systematized work of Georg Lukács: Aesthetics: the specificity of the aesthetic. The complexity of the art provides, albeit for a brief moment, an elevation that leads to an encounter between the individual and human gender. This discussion is based on the formative process of the arts. The main category of analysis is the catharsis, considering the understanding that it is from everyday life that sensations of capturing of the social beings in the world are extracted. It is in the development of the human senses that the social beings become aesthetic and evolve as human gender. In effect, in a concise manner, the potentialities to create and delight oneself with art under the logics of capitalist sociability are understood as disperse, once the state of exploitation refuses all people’s elevation to spiritual and material richness of society. Furthermore, the need to envision another social form enabling humanity to reach human-objective conditions in order to provide genuine cathartic moments to humanity should be considered.