Abstract

VITALICH SALLAN, Pablo A.. From a esthetic judgment to deleuzian cartography: analysis of taste judgments in childhood. Anu. investig. [online]. 2007, vol.14, pp.00-00. ISSN 1851-1686.

This work, part of a doctoral scholarship that proposes to characterise the childhood aesthetic experience, presents a combination of interpretative procedures and categories applied to the object of aesthetic reason in childhood. The methodological strategy is of a qualitative nature. Thirty open interviews were conducted with children of between four and twelve years old, with the aim of exploring and constructing theoretic hypotheses to characterise judgment about taste. For the analysis of the discursive material obtained, the Spinozian cartography proposed by Gilles Deleuze was employed. We present some discursive extracts, illustrating and commenting on some of the different lines of analysis and theoretic problems that emerged from these first examinations of the material. Principally, a first wide division of judgement about taste was proposed. Also, although this wasn't the thing that motivated the investigation, elements were contributed to maintain the Deleuzian thesis according to which "children are Spinozists".

Keywords : Childhood aesthetic experience; Aesthetic judgment; Childhood; Affection; Cartography.

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