How to Judge a Work of Art Today? Contemporary Echoes of Kantian Aesthetics
(2016) Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics — Vol. 8, p. 38-64 (2016)
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- How to judge a work of art? This question, already present in the Critique of the Power of Judgment by Immanuel Kant, was updated in France in the early 1990s, when the Esprit and Télérama journals dedicated some issues to what was called a “crisis” in contemporary art, namely the supposed loss of normative criteria allowing one to evaluate artworks. Following their publication, several French philosophers – among which Yves Michaud, Gérard Genette, Jean-Marie Schaeffer, and Rainer Rochlitz – took part in a public debate on judgment, which more or less explicitly centered on the third Critique, in terms similar to those employed by Kant himself in 1790. Underlining the specificity of this debate, the present paper intends to (re)examine the issue of the judgments on works of art, by establishing a dialogue between Kantian aesthetics and contemporary artistic philosophical discourses and practices.
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Angelini, C. (2016). How to Judge a Work of Art Today? Contemporary Echoes of Kantian Aesthetics. Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, 8, 38-64. (Original work published 2016)