610 KB58 KB199220252025Jakha, Hichamštevilka:134/135letnik:34str. 137-161DOI:10.32022/PHI34.2025.134-135.6ISSN:1318-3362COBISSID_HOST:264414723URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-CVXTY96UenInštitut Nove revije - Zavod za humanistikoPhainomena (Ljubljana)Alexius MeinongfenomenologijagledališčeLeopold BlausteinontologijaontologyphenomenologytheaterDid I just see Romeo commit suicide?| Meinong and Blaustein on theater|I analyze the aesthetic experience of theatergoers in light of Meinong’s “assumptions” and Blaustein’s “imaginative presentations,” taking Brentano’s “universality thesis” as the background of my analyses. I argue that “presentations” and “judgments” go hand in hand, as far as theater experience is concerned. To put forth my main argument, I follow a two-fold line of reasoning: phenomenological and ontological. On the phenomenological level, Blaustein’s imaginative presentations, I argue, are self-sufficient. Nonetheless, on the ontological level, the theater’s represented objects emerge as having a two-sided structure that undermines the phenomenological simplicity of presentations. By characterizing represented objects’ ontology in this manner, I admit Meinong’s assumptions as a fourth class of mental phenomena, and, beyond the frameworks of both Meinong and Blaustein, incorporate judgments into the aesthetic experience of theaterTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaInštitut Nove revije - Zavod za humanistiko