The philosophical meaning of the experimental literary art

In this article, the forms, the characteristics, the ways of writing, and the philosophical meaning of experimental literary art are reviewed on the example of the avant-garde works of art of the XX century. This research aims to analyze the forms and functions of experimental art from the point of view of the representatives of modern philosophy. A theoretical base of the research consists of the works by S. Freud, R. Rorty, J. Ranciere, W. Benjamin, M. Johanssen, A. Camus, F. Nietzsche, S. Sontag, etc., and also – the manifests by A. Breton and F. de Lionnais. The issue of the social commitment of the artists and the unavoidability of the connection of the art with the ideology because of the sign character of the language was analyzed. The thesis about being anti-utopia the examples of experimental art because of the modeling of the possible future in the fiction of this genre was formulated. In the evidence of the works of art of the representatives of surrealism and the approach of S. Freud and J. Ranciere, illustrated with the examples from the literature and the theatrical arts, and the educational process, automatic writing was reviewed as one of the experimental art techniques, directly connected with the idea of the intellectual emancipation contrary to the classical art, focused on compliance with the genre and social requirements of the particular epoch. Also, the main theses of the manifests of the representatives of the avant-garde streams were reviewed to visualize the understanding of their art. In particular, the attention is focused on the flowing traits of experimental art: the symbolic character of the literature, the formal experiments, and the interdisciplinarity in the use of the techniques and methodology of the humanitarian and/or mathematical scientific disciplines in the works of art. Generally, with the help of analyzing the category “style”, the question of understanding the philosophical meaning of art as a way to achieve and express personal identity was covered.