Tag Archives: Beauty

Art Contributes Nothing To Knowledge, Which Is Precisely Why We Need It So Very Much – Kant’s Analytic of The Beautiful

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

The judgement of taste, therefore, is not a cognitive judgement, and so not logical, but is aesthetic – which means that it is one whose determining ground cannot be other than subjective. Every reference of representations is capable of being … Continue reading →

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The Nightmare Will Be Archived: Our Culture of Disaster

Posted on April 21, 2011 by

The Kantian turn in philosophy marks a point at which the familiar opposition between Culture and Nature is problematized. Each becomes the ideal means through which to view the other. We will never adequately understand and explain living forms and … Continue reading →

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A “Beautiful” Mind

Posted on April 20, 2011 by

If we wish to discern whether anything is beautiful or not, we do not refer the representation of it to the object by means of understanding with a view to cognition, but by means of the imagination (acting perhaps in … Continue reading →

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