Identitet og æstetisering

Identity is related to aesthetics as a discipline for forming individuals. However, difficulties arise as to whether identity concerns the person present or a true and authentic person behind the appearance; whether it is the spiritual or the bodily presence. Aesthetics related to the sensorial and bodily faculties is about how cultural formations exercise an influence on us. Aesthetics applied to cultural formation is discussed as aestheticization. Gernot Böhme suggests with his critique of aesthetic economy that today aestheticization should not be seen as a superficial beautification of the environment, but rather as a reality for individualsused to form and present one’s identity. What could appear as an acceptance of the spurious surface should rather, with inclusion of Mario Perniola, be considered a different approach enabling a sensitive critique rather than a dogmatic rejection.

身份认同与美学相关，后者是一门塑造个体的学科。然而，关于身份认同究竟关乎当下呈现的个体还是表象背后真实本真的自我，究竟关乎精神存在还是肉身存在，相关争议始终存在。与感官及身体机能相关的美学，探讨的是文化形态如何对我们产生影响。将美学应用于文化形态的过程被称为审美化（aestheticization）。格诺特·伯梅（Gernot Böhme）在其对审美经济的批判中指出，如今的审美化不应被视为对环境的肤浅美化，而应被看作个体用以塑造和呈现自身身份认同的一种现实方式。在引入马里奥·佩尼奥拉（Mario Perniola）的观点后，那些看似对虚假表象的接纳，实则应被视为一种不同的路径——它能够促成敏锐的批判，而非教条式的拒斥。