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The Kantian Aesthetic - From Knowledge to the Avant-Garde (Paperback)
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The Kantian Aesthetic - From Knowledge to the Avant-Garde (Paperback)
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The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge
involved in aesthetic judgments. It does so by linking Kant's
aesthetics to a critically upgraded account of his theory of
knowledge. This upgraded theory emphasizes those conceptual and
imaginative structures which Kant terms, respectively, 'categories'
and 'schemata'. By describing examples of aesthetic judgment, it is
shown that these judgments must involve categories and fundamental
schemata (even though Kant himself, and most commentators after
him, have not fully appreciated the fact). It is argued, in turn,
that this shows the aesthetic to be not just one kind of
pleasurable experience amongst others, but one based on factors
necessary to objective knowledge and personal identity, and which,
indeed, itself plays a role in how these capacities develop. In
order to explain how individual aesthetic judgments are justified,
and the aesthetic basis of art, however, the Kantian position just
outlined has to be developed further. This is done by exploring
some of his other ideas concerning how critical comparisons inform
our cultivation of taste, and art's relation to genius. By linking
the points made earlier to a more developed account of this horizon
of critical comparisons, a Kantian approach can be shown to be both
a satisfying and comprehensive explanation of the cognitive basis
of aesthetic experiences. It is shown also that the approach can
even cover some of the kinds of avant-garde works which were
thought previously to limit its relevance.
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