Mollenhauer on the Formation of the"Aesthetic Self"as the Fundamental Problem of Aesthetic Education
In the view of the contemporary German educationalist Klaus Mollenhauer,aesthetic education is not only an activity of art education and cultivation of artistic skills,but the key to aesthetic education lies in the formation of the individual's"aesthetic self"through the diversity of senses and experiences.In the aesthetic experience,the inner move-ment of the Ich/I and the Selbst/self drives the formation of the"aesthetic self".Although aesthetic experience is an experiential way of pointing to the self,aesthetic education can still be useful for the formation of the"aesthetic self":aesthetic education must be based on the diversity of senses;educators need to initiate children to express their"aesthetic self";and use methods to decode the symbolic expression of"aesthetic self".The"aesthetic self"is essentially the search for the"possible self",the necessary imagination for the formation of the"true self"of the individual,and is therefore the basic issue of education.Education,like aesthetics,is an art of dealing with possibilities.
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