'In an unbounded way': after Kant on genius

Andrew Benjamin

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    Abstract

    The project of this paper is present a specific engagement with Kant's account of genius in the Critique of the Power of Judgment. Genius is a theory of production. Moreover, once genius is linked to production (and not to a personified agent) the philosophical moves way from the centrality of both the given and the subject and thus towards the produced. Such a possibility locates Kant's engagement with genius at the threshold between aesthetics and a philosophy of art. The latter only emerges when centrality is attributed to the object: the object as the locus of presentation. This necessitates a move beyond the cognitive. Kant on genius is therefore at that threshold, on the other side of which is Hegel.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)9-30
    JournalResearch in Phenomenology
    Volume49
    Issue number1
    Early online date4 Mar 2019
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 31 Mar 2019

    Bibliographical note

    Note: This work was supported by the Australian Reach Council, Place, Commonality and the Human. Towards a New Philosophical Anthropology.

    Keywords

    • Philosophy

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