ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of the aesthetic and the erotic value-spheres. The value-sphere theory of meaning helps in explaining the extraordinary status of art and the erotic love in the modernity. If the focus is on this structure of the meaninglessness and it is recognised how rationalisation is the ongoing basic process at work that has constituted to this formation, then is called as the spheres of the economy, politics and science the 'rationalised' value-spheres. Max Weber understands the aesthetic and erotic spheres as fatefully tied to the rationalised value-spheres, and this relationship provides a new sense of meaning that in fact rivals religion. In each value-sphere some sense of meaning was shown to be possible, as opposed to the overall meaninglessness of modern existence in terms of death and life-conduct. The ideal interest in finding some meaning for this fact of human existence is absent.
