From recent work on Ingarden it is apparent that values are central to his philosophy, even in the context of his realist ontology. In this evaluation of Ingarden’s work we consider his principal philosophical notions (i.e. his realist ontology, his aesthetics, his reflections on language, and his consideration of values) in the light of what Nietzsche referred to in his own philosophy as the “reevaluation” or the “inversion” of all values. It is argued that two of Ingarden’s most fundamental values (...) are the notion of communication and the aesthetic dimension of thought. (shrink)

RÉSUMÉ Cet article met en lumière la formation des valeurs esthétiques entendues au sens de la philosophie de Roman Ingarden. L'auteur présente et commente trois notions essentielles de cette pensée : il s'agit de la concrétisation, de la valeur esthétique et du noyau de l'objet esthétique. Bien que la critique s'intéresse depuis longtemps à l'axiologie ingardénienne, la perspective de l'auteur, mettant en valeur la notion de noyau esthétique, indique clairement que la pensée d'Ingarden chevauche deux approches différentes en ce qui (...) concerne la formation des valeurs. Lorsqu'il s'agit de la création de nouvelles valeurs, par exemple, la soi-disant objectivité de la philosophie d'Ingarden semble masquer le côté subjectif de leur formation. ABSTRACT The objective of this article isfirst to present the major notions of Ingarden's philosophy with respect to axiology : concretization, aesthetic value and the core of the aesthetic object, and second, to show that Ingarden's so-called objective aesthetics covers up or masks the more subjective elements of value theory. Critics have long been interested in Ingarden's aesthetics, but the author's perspective, insisting on the importance of the core of the aesthetic objet, clearly reveals that Ingarden's thought actually involves two different approaches in aesthetic value theory, an empirical approach, and a more subjective, relative one which seems to remain hidden. (shrink)