Some Notes on the Role of Language and the Aesthetic in Cognition

The foremost communicational modeling system is lang. The second most important is aesthetics, as the support & root of communication. It is claimed that capitalist positivism exaggerates the importance of aesthetics, because with its help they can manipulate society. An attempt is made to provide evidence of social (political) & sociological background for aesthetics, & refute its secondary position in communication. Recent semiotic examples claim to support this theory on the basis of the Marxist scientific socialism. 63 References. A. Sholtes