Lee Nam-in: Phenomenology of the Artistic Instinct

Seogwangsa, a publisher specializing in philosophy books, has released the new book *Phenomenology of the Artistic Instinct*. *Phenomenology of the Artistic Instinct* systematically elucidates various artistic phenomena by analyzing the artistic instinct and clarifying artistic creation, aesthetic experience, and aesthetic attitudes within their context. This book was written by Professor Lee Nam-in of the Department of Philosophy at Seoul National University, a world-renowned scholar in the field of phenomenological research. *Phenomenology of the Artistic Instinct* is a phenomenological aesthetics developed based on the clarification of the artistic instinct, which is the generative source of all artistic experiences, including both artistic creation and appreciation. The various characteristics of all artistic experiences are determined by the influence of the artistic instinct, its generative source. Therefore, *Phenomenology of the Artistic Instinct* can clarify various important attributes of artistic experience that aesthetic theories that do not consider the artistic instinct cannot reveal. Furthermore, because the artistic instinct is the generative source of all artistic experiences, *Phenomenology of the Artistic Instinct* is relevant to almost every subject in aesthetics. This book is likely the only attempt in both domestic and international academia to systematically develop and analyze the phenomenology of the artistic instinct. Furthermore, *The Phenomenology of the Artistic Instinct* critically examines several discussions on the artistic instinct that have appeared in the history of philosophy, thereby developing an original conception of its phenomenology. From the perspective of the history of aesthetics, it was Schiller who laid the foundation for the development of a concrete aesthetic by overcoming the limitations of Kant's aesthetics. Nevertheless, Schiller's aesthetics could not develop into a concrete aesthetic in the true sense because it was not completely free from the premises of idealistic metaphysics.

Korean title: 예술본능의 현상학

Korean author: 이남인

Korean publisher: 서광사

ISBN-13: 9788930662185