The aesthetic in the context of ontological understanding: experience of phenomenological vision

The research considers issues related to the analysis of the aesthetic based on ontological and phenomenological approaches. In the context of an ontological approach, the aesthetic is understood as a mode of a human existence. The problem of the development and application of special methodology for its holistic comprehension is defined. A phenomenological method is proposed as one of the structural components of such a methodology, which allows to reveal the aesthetic as a process, which main characteristics are incompletion, cyclicity and eventfulness. An aesthetic event is the mechanism for unfolding an aesthetic process. Based on the phenomenological description there are identified primary and secondary cycles in the structure of an aesthetic process. The phases and conditions of their implementation, as well as the dynamics of the structure’s complication in the secondary cycle are presented. The research provides in detail the phenomenological description of the secondary cycle phases. An artistic creation is considered as one of the possible modifications of the act of co-creation, which is reproduced in an infinite chain of potential artistic and aesthetic reincarnations. There are defined the conditions for continuity of event aestheticization and the basic trajectories of its realization (linear and circular), which constantly replace one another, thus forming a spiral configuration of an aesthetic process. It is shown that the experience of phenomenological vision reveals the ontological space of aesthetic eventfulness as the one which is multidimensional, modal, constantly updated and transformed in the acts of aestheticization. It is concluded that the understanding of aesthetic existence as a holistic process allows to combine the description of its various ontological modes in a single space of consideration, taking into account the equivalence of subjective basic points (author, creation and co-author) included in the process of aestheticization.