Reference : ARGUMENTS FOR NON-CONCEPTUALISM IN KANT’S THIRD CRITIQUE
Scientific journals : Article
Arts & humanities : Philosophy & ethics
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/40896
ARGUMENTS FOR NON-CONCEPTUALISM IN KANT’S THIRD CRITIQUE
English
Heidemann, Dietmar mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE) >]
2019
Verifiche
Associazione Trentina di Scienze Umane
XLVIII
1
1-24
Yes
International
0391-4186
Italy
[en] Kant ; non-conceptual content ; aesthetics
[en] I argue that in his aesthetics, Kant puts forward arguments that help to answer the question of whether he is a conceptualist or a non-conceptualist. The current debate on Kantian conceptualism and non-conceptualism has completely overlooked the importance of Kant’s aesthetics. There are two candidates for non-conceptuality in Kant’s aesthetics. First, non-conceptual content plays a crucial role in aesthetic evaluation. Second, non-conceptual content has a systematic explanatory function in the theory of aesthetic creation of the genius of art. Accordingly, my argument proceeds in two steps: In first analyse the role of non-conceptual content in aesthetic evaluation, i.e., Kant’s claim that aesthetic experience is cognition of a special kind that does not bear on conceptual activities. In then look at the role of non-conceptual content in the genius’s creation of artwork. I argue that art production does not imply conceptual activity and therefore seems to count as a second systematic instance of Kantian non-conceptualism. If my argument is correct, then Kant’s aesthetics implies non-conceptualism with respect to aesthetic evaluation but does not in any objective sense with respect to aesthetic creation.
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/40896

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