Abstract

The process of artistic creation represents a research subject that involves diverse theoretical and methodological challenges. Thus, for example, the question of the epistemological dimension of artistic creation poses itself and of whether philosophical investigation of the processes of creation demands a special epistemology that goes beyond the classical theory of knowledge. In this article both questions are answered in the positive. At the same time it is argued that the philosophical investigation must go beyond a purely conceptual and theoretical level, because the concrete processes of creation point to discrete aspects of activity that are theoretically demanding. For this reason an analysis of methodological approaches is essential where it concerns an approach to the artistic praxis. Both the theoretical and the practical research problems thus compell aesthetics to a closer interleaving with empirical social science and the theory of practice.