All rights reserved info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceProceedings eng application/pdf 277136 bytes 2015 Аbstract: The paper examines the relationship and contradictions between humanist and anti-humanist aesthetic conception of the aesthetic dimension. The author intends to indicate and underline the differences between these philosophical perspectives by comparing two divergent theoretical paradigms: one connected to Herbert Marcuse's humanist aesthetic approach and other related to the anti-humanist aesthetics of Jacques Rancière. The focus of the paper is to describe and analyze the issue concerning the abolition of the boundaries between art and life, as one of the avant-garde's crucial maxims, as well as the conditions of the possibility of reaching the Real of the axiom of communis in the present state of affairs. It is argued that the aesthetic dimension of emancipatory art needs to be thought and "grounded" on the certain ethico-aesthetic remainder. Key words: aesthetic dimension, life, emancipation, humanism, anti-humanism, Marcuse, Rancière Faculty of Media and Communications Book of Аbstracts: International Conference Beyond the Crisis in the Humanities: Transdisciplinary Transformations of Contemporary Discourses on Art and Culture str. 32- https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:32689 cobiss:214243084 ISBN: 978-86-87107-30-4 Te Aesthetic Dimension : Between Humanist and Anti-Humanist Aesthetics Matejić, Bojana