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Critique of
Aesthetic Judgment
By: NICKY C. CARDENAS
FLOW OF PRESENTATION
OBJECTIVES:
Meaning of Art Deconstruction
Kant's Life Background
Kant's Aesthetic Judgment
Problems/Issues
Critique on Kant's Aesthetics
Vania Zouravliov
Deconstruction of Art? Or
Destruction of Art?
Kant
Immanuel Kant, 1724~1804
22 April 1724 --Knigsberg in
East Prussia ( after 1945,
Kaliningrad)
12 February 1804 (aged 79)
--Knigsberg
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Experience of Kant:
the University of Knigsberg
Immanuel Kant
(1724-1804)
Immanuel Kants
analysis of aesthetic
judgments is found in
the first part of the
third critique in the
Critique of Judgment
(1790).
How can aesthetic
judgments be
universally valid?
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1.
2.
4. Modality or
Necessary
Pleasure
1. Quantity or
Disinterested
Pleasure
2) Fine Art
Sensation vs. Cognition
Agreeable Arts: glasses are wine glasses,
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Elucidation of
explanation of Genius
It is the Art of Genius.
But Kant does not say each
Art-Purpose-Rules.
Fine Art: faculties- imagination
and understanding
Originality produces nonsense.
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understanding
Originality produces nonsense.
Taste is critical and genius is
productive, they often diverge.
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The SUBLIME
1) Mathematically Sublime
2) Dynamically Sublime
In the case of both notions, the
experience of the sublime consists in a
feeling of the superiority of our own
power of reason, as a supersensible
faculty, over nature (28, 261).
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Issues/Problems
1) Imagination vs Understanding
2) Logical Judgments vs.
Aesthetics
3) Aesthetics vs. Morality
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Issues/Problems
1) Imagination vs Understanding
2) Logical Judgments vs.
Aesthetics
3) Aesthetics vs. Morality
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Critique on Kant's
Aesthetics?
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THANK YOU
VERY MUCH!!!
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