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Kant advances two major claims towards arguing for the compatibility of the subjectivity and universality of the experience of beauty: (i) that aesthetic judgments are disinterested , and (ii) that the universality of an aesthetic judgment derives from the transcendental idealist s account of ordinary spatio-temporal experience that is, our ord...
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Kant’s call for disinterestedness in the appreciation of beauty is perhaps the most irrational part of his theory. Is it humanly possible to be completely intuitive, to experience something through sensation alone without applying past experiences or previous knowledge?
Jun 8, 2022 · Poetry does make things happen, pace Auden, but the mode of its happening – interested or disinterested, political or apolitical – depends on our view of it in the first place.
The pleasure, however, is of a distinctive kind: it is disinterested, which means that it does not depend on the subject's having a desire for the object, nor does it generate such a desire.
Jul 2, 2005 · The pleasure, however, is of a distinctive kind: it is disinterested, which means that it does not depend on the subject’s having a desire for the object, nor does it generate such a desire.
In The Study of Poetry he also cautions the critic that in forming a genuine and disinterested estimate of the poet under consideration he should not be influenced by historical or personal judgements, historical judgements being fallacious because we regard ancient poets with excessive veneration, and personal judgements being fallacious when ...
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Mathew Arnold (1822-1888) enjoys the twin distinction of being one of the finest English poets and a critic. In a literary career spanning almost five decades he wrote prolific poetry and huge tomes of critical work.
