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Kant’s Aesthetic Nonconceptionalism
Heidemann, Dietmar
2016In Schulting, Dennis (Ed.) Kantian Nonconceptualism
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Keywords :
Nonconceptual Content; Kant; Aesthetics
Abstract :
[en] The debate about Kantian conceptualism and non-conceptualism has completely overlooked the importance of Kant’s aesthetics. I show how this debate can be significantly advanced by exploring Kant’s aesthetics, that is, the theory of judgments of taste and the doctrine of the aesthetic genius of the third Critique. The analysis of judgments of taste demonstrates that non-conceptual mental content is a condition of the possibility of aesthetic experience. The subsequent discussion of the doctrine of the aesthetic genius reveals that aesthetic ideas must also be conceived in terms of non-conceptual mental content. I finally restrict Kant’s aesthetic non-conceptualism to the way aesthetic perceivers cognitively evaluate artwork, while the doctrine of the genius cannot count as a viable form of aesthetic non-conceptualism.
Disciplines :
Philosophy & ethics
Author, co-author :
Heidemann, Dietmar  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Kant’s Aesthetic Nonconceptionalism
Publication date :
2016
Main work title :
Kantian Nonconceptualism
Editor :
Schulting, Dennis
Publisher :
Palgrave Macmillan, London, Unknown/unspecified
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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