Abstract

The article offers a brief presentation of the aesthesiological theory developed by Helmuth Plessner, one of the fathers of German philosophical anthropology of the twentieth century. It is an ambitious project that seeks to link the Kantian systematic approach with a hermeneutical phenomenology of the senses. Alongside an illustration of the key concepts, we highlight the points of greatest interest for the aesthetic discourse, in particular the comparison between sound and image, the topic of schematism and the intrinsic connection between culture and embodiment. They are precisely the points that make aesthetics an essential component of the anthropology of eccentricity proposed by the philosopher.