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    It is not the case that Authentic aesthetic experience requires the spectator or reader to enact the same original mode of being-in-the-world as the artist.

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    • 1.Hans-Georg Gadamer argues that aesthetic meaning emerges from the 'fusion of horizons' between text and reader, not replication of authorial consciousness.
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    • 2.The reader's own historical situatedness is constitutive of meaning, making identical modes of being-in-the-world neither possible nor desirable for genuine understanding.
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    • 3.Requiring spectatorial re-enactment of authorial being collapses the ontological distinction between artwork and artist, which Gadamer's hermeneutics treats as essential to aesthetic truth.
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    • 1.Roland Barthes' 'death of the author' thesis, grounded in structuralist semiotics, holds that a text's meaning is produced in reading, not deposited by authorial intention or lived experience.
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    • 2.If the locus of aesthetic meaning is the reader's active construction from signifying structures, then privileging the artist's original mode of being is a category error that mislocates where aesthetic experience occurs.
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    • 1.Truly expressive meaning involves a new form of being-in-the-world, not merely passive reception.
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    • 2.The reader or spectator is called upon to effectuate the same original mode of being-in-the-world as the artist.
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    • 3.A skilled writer finds the ellipses, elisions, and caesuras of conduct that allow the reader to meet the author at the centre of the imaginary world.
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