AESTHETIC IDEA AS AN ESSENCE OF AESTHETIC

• Authors: Kirwan James
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper suggests that Kant’s concept of the ‘aesthetic idea’ is a useful starting point for understanding the nature of aesthetic experience once we reject the formalist interpretation that Kant gives to the relationship between those ideas and that experience.

Keywords

EN

ART; KANT IMMANUEL; AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE

• Journal: ESPES
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 24 – 29

Contributors

author

Kirwan James

• Department of Cross-Cultural Studies, General Department of Humanities, Faculty of Letters, Kansai University, 3-3-35 Yamate-cho, Suita-shi, Osaka 564-8680, Japan,