Why the soviet aesthetic did not see in the aroma the essential aesthetic meaning
The actuality of the theme is the cause of the great role, which play the fra-grance in modern culture. The problem of the aroma is sensible as aesthetic. Its different aspects of this problem is analyzed in the condition with the question itself: It is shown, that there are many reasons for it “conceptual blindness”: the negation of the social meaning sense of smell; the philosophical materialism, which the negation the spiritual content of nature; the conceptual negation the beauty of nature as themselves; the interpretation sense of smell as the selfish and utilitarian value. The aroma is analyzed as the part on the beauty whole and as the beauty harmonic phenomenon.