ÚVAHY O SLOBODE KANTOM KONCIPOVANEJ GENIALITE

• Authors: Haško Štefan

Title variants

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Reflections on freedom of Kant´s conceived notion of genius

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The gravity of freedom, as one of the main features and privileges of Kant’s genius, can be verified by the fact, according to which his artistic creation reveals itself within the so-called Beautiful, Free Art. Despite all that, the work originates from reflections, which present themselves as reasons to reassess the main themes and characteristics in Kant’s aesthetic theory. In the paper, I deal with the analysis of a narrowed down understanding of genius; i.e. by interpreting freedom as ‘solely’ the liberation from rules of art creation and at the same time, in respect to Kant's conception of disinterestedness, from all outside-art objectives. In respect of concepts of genius specified by Kant, we can ask ourselves about the issue at hand; is it even possible for a genius to be unsatisfied with the mechanics of his own genius, in other words him being a genius per se.

Keywords

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KANT; GENIUS; FREEDOM

• Publisher: Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia ad Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture
• Journal: ESPES
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 74 – 78

Contributors

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Haško Štefan

• Inštitút estetiky a umeleckej kultúry FF PU v Prešove, Prešov, Slovak Republic