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Aesthetic Judgments and Their Cultural Grounding

Some Thoughts on the Problem of Ascribing Aesthetic Concepts to Works of Art
  • Stefan Majetschak EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 28. Mai 2019

Abstract

At present, the theoretical approaches of Baumgarten and Kant continue to constitute the framework for discussing the nature of aesthetic judgments about art, including the question of what such judgments are really articulating. In distinction to those two eighteenth-century theorists, today we would largely avoid an assumption that aesthetic judgments necessarily attribute beauty to the objects being judged; we would as a rule take a far more complex approach to the topic. But whatever we say about art, even today many theorists wish to ground aesthetic judgments in particularities of the aesthetic object, like Baumgarten, or in specific moments of the aesthetic experience, like Kant.

Published Online: 2019-05-28
Published in Print: 2019-05-27

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