Aesthetic Judgment as Parasitic on Cognition
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Aaron Halper
Abstract
When we judge something to be beautiful, do we identify an inherent feature of the object, or only our subjective response to it? This paper argues that, for Kant, pure aesthetic judgment occupies a middle ground. Such judgments are based upon affective responses to our own cognitive faculties. Thus, pure aesthetic judgment is subjective insofar as it concerns our feeling ourselves to be engaged in a certain task; it is objective insofar as the task we are engaged in is cognition of an object, and the faculties that we are feeling to be at work are the cognitive faculties of the understanding and the imagination. This paper locates this interpretation in the text of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment in the third Critique and uses it to make sense of many otherwise opaque features of Kant’s account of pure aesthetic judgment.
© 2019 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelseiten
- List of Contributors
- Titelei
- Table of Contents
- Game between Arch-enemies: An Interpretation of the Free and Harmonious Play of Faculties
- Can there be a Finite Interpretation of the Kantian Sublime?
- Aesthetic Judgment as Parasitic on Cognition
- Performative versus Orientational Hermeneutics. Gadamer’s Criticism of Kant’s Sensus Communis and its Hermeneutical Rehabilitation by Makkreel
- Kant on Common-sense and the Unity of Judgments of Taste
- Kant’s Account of the Sublime as Critique
- List of Contributors
- Topics of the Kant Yearbook 2020, 2021 and 2022
