The Aesthetic Idea as the Essence of the Aesthetic

Espes 7 (1):24-29 (2018)
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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.

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