The Role of an Aesthetic Experience in the Aesthetic Writings of Roman Ingarden and Stephen Coburn Pepper

The objective of this thesis is to analyze and compare the theories of an aesthetic experience of two signifiant personalities in the aesthetics of the 20th century, Roman Ingarden and Stephen Coburn Pepper. On the background of this analysis arise important questions to which this work in the light of the above theories will try to answer. What a role plays the physical work in aesthetic experience and to what extent is the percieving subject involved? What is the object of critical appreciation and on what basis do we judge the aesthetic values