Immanuel Kant. The “Critique of Judgment”: aesthetic experience, art theory, and teleological thinking Christel Fricke
Description of the Course
In his third Critique, the Critique of Judgment (1790), Kant deals with a whole list of different topics: (1) aesthetic emotions and aesthetic judgments (2) taste (3) beauty (4) art (5) artistic genius (6) the sublime (7) teleological judgment (8) transcendental philosophy as a coherent system One problem for both the contemporary and the modern reader was and still is to understand how all these topics are connected and why a “Critique of Judgment” is concerned with all of them. Even though Kant’s theories of art and artistic quality are deeply rooted in the system of his transcendental philosophy, theses theories are valuable still today when it comes to understanding how to make sense of contemporary art.
The course will be taught in English.
Those who intend to attend this course are strongly recommended to start reading the Critique of Judgment before the course starts.
Bibliography
Kant, Immanual, Kritik der Urteilskraft. (1790) Kant Immanual, Erste Einleitung in die Kritik der Urteilskraft. (posthum)
Kant, Immanual, Critique of the Power of Judgment. Ed. by Paul Guyer, translated by Eric Matthews (Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation), Cambridge ….)
Hume, David, “On the Standard of Taste”. (1757)
Further reading to be announced.