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Theory of art as so called the theory of intuition-expression extremely and clearlydemonstrates the way of a mystic experience as a experience of the Absolute. Croce’sconcept of the Absolute is a sign of being spiritual, no diverse in itself, what is morefully given in an emotional (feeling)artistic expression (artwork). Imagination asan appropriate representational power expressively became, in this context, thesphere of the Absolute (indifferent intuition, totality of Being) in which the Absolute realizes – through creation of art – the material world. An artist, because ofhis creative imagination, appears for Croce as a complete, perfect man and fulfillsa creative and demiurge function for the world. According to Kandinsky, inspiredby Steiner’s antroposophy, art doesn’t present concrete thingsbut using a maximumsimplistic concrete form, expresses and shows things in itself, as an ideal, spiritual,absolute but compared to the world of concretes, the mentioned thingsare internal,substantial, essential and “abstractive”. Abstraction as a “true reality” demands ofgiving up the empirical world and looking continuously at the sphere of absolute“necessity”. Art is a specific, inspired knowledge of the Absolute and an abstractartist inspired by this knowledge and expressing it in his artworks must be understoodin a way characteristic of mysticism (an inspired visionary-prophet, perfect man).In Adorno’s aesthetic theory art actualizes the nature in aspect of beauty and thisactualization consists in changing towards the lack of identity. An individual (eachone ) artwork is the “epiphany” of “spirit” of art, that is an aesthetically Absolute.As a result an artwork presents itself as a kind of “mystic event”, but an artist expressing the sphere of the Absolute still be an inspired visionary going beyond thenatural (empirical) order.All of these theories of art are based on the old neoplato-arabian theory of “creativeimagination” which determinates their quasi- or pseudo-mystic aspiration. Theyare not go beyond tradition, that is “natural mysticism” (characteristic of pantheism). This kind of mysticism differs from revelation mysticism on the grounds ofTranscendence (aspect of a object) and classical moment ofcontemplatio(aspectof a subject).

The main concern of my work is the issue of the distinction between objectivity and subjectivity on the ground of Frege’s works. It is assumed in this article that in Frege’s concept of objectivity is a special kind of absolute. In order to justify that claim, I use Frege’s ontological ideas, e.g. distinction between object and concept, three kingdoms, Truth, False, distinction between thought and thinking.

The idea of the article is to search for the roots of the so-called existential thinking, using the peculiar comparison: of the religiously oriented ideas of Kierkegaard ( especially his notions of subjective and objective thinker and the idea of subjective truth)and contemporary ideas of Odo Marquard’s hermeneutical skepticism. Surprisingly, Marquard’s anthropologically and sociologically oriented reflection, while dealing with the problem of human search for absolute knowledge and its depreciation of particular existence, comes to much the same reflections as Kierkegaard: stating rational inability to reach The Objective. Both philosophers analyze the dynamics of the thinking subject and come to more similar statements: Kierkegaard’s notion of objective uncertainty can be, to the certain extent, used to describe attitude of modern thinker described by Marquard. “To the certain extent” – because it is hard and not legitimized to avoid in interpretation the ultimate religious goal that ties up the whole Kierkegaard’s authorship and makes his thought so specific. But the similarities are not meant just to be shown here: they aim to point out certain, very substantial reflection that lies at the root of the existential thinking and makes it still necessary. It is the reflection that sees human mortality, individuality and the dynamic character of the self as the basis for giving primacy in philosophy to the “here and now” questions of how to live and die and how to share those questions with others.