Geist and Communication in Kant's Theory of Aesthetic Ideas

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles DeBord

AbstractIn his Critique of the Power of Judgement, Kant explicates the creation of works of fine art (schöne Kunst) in terms of aesthetic ideas. His analysis of aesthetic ideas claims that they are not concepts (Begriffe) and are therefore not definable or describable in determinate language. Nevertheless, Kant claims that aesthetic ideas are communicable via spirit (Geist), a special mental ability he associates with artistic genius. This paper argues that Kant's notion of Geist is central to his analysis of fine art's expressive power. The notion of Geist constitutes a conceptual link between Kant's aesthetic theory and that of G. W. F. Hegel, for whose analysis Geist is the subject.

1926 ◽  
Vol 20 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 148-151
Author(s):  
H. P. R. Finberg

The famous passage (Enn. V. 8. 1) in which Plotinus declares that fine art, so far from simply reproducing nature, ‘goes back to the Reason-principles from which nature herself emanates,’ has hitherto been generally regarded as a tacit criticism of Plato's teaching, and as an original contribution to the philosophy of art involving a rupture with the entire previous tradition of Greek aesthetic theory. Yet Plotinus introduces it, not as if he were proclaiming a new gospel, but almost casually, as a subordinate link in his discussion of Intelligible Beauty. And though his respect for Plato was not the half-superstitious reverence of the later Neoplatonists, he was at all times more zealous to walk in Plato's footsteps than to correct or criticize him, tacitly or otherwise. Moreover, can it be said with certainty that his doctrine is in itself opposed to Plato's? That question can be answered only by a detailed examination of Plato's theory of art—a task which I hope to accomplish elsewhere. In the present article, postponing all enquiry into the relation between these two aesthetic theories, I shall endeavour to show that the teaching of Plotinus was not a sudden innovation, but the natural and indeed inevitable outcome of preceding thought.


INVENSI ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-65
Author(s):  
Syafriyandi Syafriyandi

Fotografi ekspresi merupakan ungkapan jiwa yang mengutamakan ekspresi jati diri pribadi seseorang yang akan diekspresikan dalam karya seni murni. Ide penciptaan karya fotografi ini berawal dari problematika yang sering dijumpai dalam karya fotografi yang tidak mampu memberikan kesan ataupun sensasi yang merespon emosional kepada khalayak ramai. Dari sebab itu timbul kegelisahan penulis untuk menciptakan karya fotografi dengan subjek color splash dengan action figure, dengan adanya warna yang diolah kreatif menjadi color splash yaitu sebuah cipratan warna yang membentuk kedinamisan pola yang tidak terduga yang mampu memunculkan sebuah sensasi yang mengunsung suatu nilai yang pada ujungnya mampu memberikan impresi di dalam perasaan yang merespon emosional ataupun daya ganggu yang dapat diintepretasikan oleh khalayak ramai sesuai dengan pengalaman-pengalaman pribadi. Metode dalam penciptaan ini diawali dengan penggalian ide dan konsep yang dilanjutkan dengan setudi referensi dan eksplorasi yang kemudian diakhiri dengan keputusan eksekusi. Dari penciptaan karya ini sesuatu hal yang didapat yaitu pengaruh warna di setiap karya, dengan menghadirkan warna yang diolah kreatif menjadi suatu bentuk yang artistik didalam sebuah karya, dapat mengatasi sebuah karya agar tidak lagi menjadi suatu karya foto yang berhenti menjadi gambar indah saja. Tetapi dengan adanya warna didalam sebuah karya foto akan memberikan sensasi yang dapat merespon emosional penikmat karya. Photographic expression is an expression of the soul that promotes expression of one's personal identity to be expressed in a fine art. The idea of the creation of this photography project started from the problems that are often encountered in photographic work can not afford to give the impression or sensation that responds emotionally to the general public. From hence arises the anxiety authors to create works of photography with the subject color splash with action figures, with their color-treated creatively into color splash is a splash of color that make up the dynamic of a pattern that is not unexpected that is able to bring a sensation mengunsung a value which in the end able to give the impression in the sense that respond to emotional or interrupt power to Interpret the general public in accordance with personal experiences. The method in this creation begins with extracting ideas and concepts followed by the reference of the studies and exploration that later ended with the execution of the decision. From the creation of this work were obtained something that is the influence of color on each work, by presenting creative color processed into a form that is artistic in a work, can cope with a work so it will not be a work of photo stop being a wonderful image only. but with the absence of color in a photo work will give the sensation that can respond to an emotional audience of work.


GEOgraphia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Alexandre Domingues Ribas ◽  
Antonio Carlos Vitte

Resumo: Há um relativo depauperamento no tocante ao nosso conhecimento a respeito da relação entre a filosofia kantiana e a constituição da geografia moderna e, conseqüentemente, científica. Esta relação, quando abordada, o é - vezes sem conta - de modo oblíquo ou tangencial, isto é, ela resta quase que exclusivamente confinada ao ato de noticiar que Kant ofereceu, por aproximadamente quatro décadas, cursos de Geografia Física em Königsberg, ou que ele foi o primeiro filósofo a inserir esta disciplina na Universidade, antes mesmo da criação da cátedra de Geografia em Berlim, em 1820, por Karl Ritter. Não ultrapassar a pueril divulgação deste ato em si mesma só nos faz jogar uma cortina sobre a ausência de um discernimento maior acerca do tributo de Kant àfundamentação epistêmica da geografia moderna e científica. Abrir umafrincha nesta cortina denota, necessariamente, elucidar o papel e o lugardo “Curso de Geografia Física” no corpus da filosofia transcendental kantiana. Assim sendo, partimos da conjectura de que a “Geografia Física” continuamente se mostrou, a Kant, como um conhecimento portador de um desmedido sentido filosófico, já que ela lhe denotava a própria possibilidade de empiricização de sua filosofia. Logo, a Geografia Física seria, para Kant, o embasamento empírico de suas reflexões filosóficas, pois ela lhe comunicava a empiricidade da invenção do mundo; ela lhe outorgava a construção metafísica da “superfície da Terra”. Destarte, da mesma maneira que a Geografia, em sua superfície geral, conferiu uma espécie de atributo científico à validação do empírico da Modernidade (desde os idos do século XVI), a Geografia Física apresentou-se como o sustentáculo empírico da reflexão filosófica kantiana acerca da “metafísica da natureza” e da “metafísica do mundo”.THE COURSE OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF IMMANUEL KANT(1724-1804): CONTRIBUTION FOR THE GEOGRAPHICALSCIENCE HISTORY AND EPISTEMOLOGYAbstract: There is a relative weakness about our knowledge concerningKant philosophy and the constitution of modern geography and,consequently, scientific geography. That relation, whenever studied,happens – several times – in an oblique or tangential way, what means thatit lies almost exclusively confined in the act of notifying that Kant offered,for approximately four decades, “Physical Geography” courses inKonigsberg, or that he was the first philosopher teaching the subject at anyCollege, even before the creation of Geography chair in Berlin, in 1820, byKarl Ritter. Not overcoming the early spread of that act itself only made usthrow a curtain over the absence of a major understanding about Kant’stribute to epistemic justification of modern and scientific geography. Toopen a breach in this curtain indicates, necessarily, to lighten the role andplace of Physical Geography Course inside Kantian transcendentalphilosophy. So, we began from the conjecture that Physical Geography hasalways shown, by Kant, as a knowledge carrier of an unmeasuredphilosophic sense, once it showed the possibility of empiricization of hisphilosophy. Therefore, a Physical Geography would be, for Kant, theempirics basis of his philosophic thoughts, because it communicates theempiria of the world invention; it has made him to build metaphysically the“Earth’s surface”. In the same way, Geography, in its general surface, hasgiven a particular tribute to the empiric validation of Modernity (since the16th century), Physical Geography introduced itself as an empiric basis toKantian philosophical reflection about “nature’s metaphysics” and the“world metaphysics” as well.Keywords: History and Epistemology of Geography, Physical Geography,Cosmology, Kantian Transcendental Philosophy, Nature.


2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aviv Reiter

AbstractWittgenstein’s private language argument claims that language and meaning generally are public. It also contends with our appreciation of artworks and reveals the deep connection in our minds between originality and the temptation to think of original meaning as private. This problematic connection of ideas is found in Kant’s theory of fine art. For Kant conceives of the capacity of artistic genius for imaginatively envisioning original content as prior to and independent of finding the artistic means of communicating this content to others. This raises the question of whether we can conceive of art as both original and meaningful without succumbing to privacy.


Author(s):  
Gökhan Kodalak

There is a peculiar aesthetic undercurrent traversing Baruch Spinoza’s philosophy, harbouring untapped potentials and far-reaching consequences for contemporary discussions on aesthetics. The relationship between aesthetics and Spinoza’s philosophy, however, has been nothing but a huge missed encounter, resulting in the publication of only a few books and a handful of articles throughout a vast period of more than three-and-a-half centuries. Which begs the question: might there be, despite our persistent negligence, much more to the relationship of Spinoza and aesthetics than first meets the eye? I will argue that there might be. For once Spinoza’s philosophy as a whole, ranging from his philosophical and political treatises to his private letters and unfinished manuscripts, is read between the lines, latent seeds of a peculiar aesthetic theory become visible—an aesthetic theory that moves beyond subjective and objective approaches that have come to dominate the field, and rather grounds itself on affective interactions and morphogenetic processes. A subterranean journey through Spinoza’s affective aesthetics constitutes the subject matter of this paper, which interweaves subtle aesthetic hints buried deep within his philosophical archive, while unfolding relevant ramifications of these promising discoveries for the current aesthetic discourse.


Author(s):  
Ewa Wipszycka

The Canons of Athanasius, a homiletic work written at the beginning of the fifth century in one of the cities of the Egyptian chora, provide us with many important and detailed pieces of information about the Church hierarchy. Information gleaned from this text can be found in studies devoted to the history of Christianity of the fourth and fifth centuries, but rarely are they the subject of reflection as an autonomous subject. To date, no one has endeavoured to determine how the author of the Canons sought to establish the parameters of his work: why he included certain things in this work, and why left other aspects out despite them being within the boundaries of the subject which he had wished to write upon. This article looks to explore two thematic areas: firstly, what we learn about the hierarchical Church from the Canons, and secondly, what we know about the hierarchical Church from period sources other than the Canons. This article presents new arguments which exclude the authorship of Athanasius and date the creation of the Canons to the first three decades of the fifth century.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-231
Author(s):  
Andrey S. Barmenkov

Introduction. The article is devoted to the description of pottery ceramics on Mordovian territory. The purpose of the article is to analyze the development of ceramics in Mordovian region. The object of the article is a collection of ceramics of Mordovian republican S.D. Erzia Fine Art Museum, the subject – the main features of the ceramics based on the morphological analysis of its exhibits. Materials and Methods. The material of the study was the results of the research of Russian scholars on ceramics of antiquity and modernity, as well as empirical materials presented by the ceramics funds of Mordovian republican S.D. Erzia Fine Art Museum. One of the main approaches implemented in the article is a comparative analysis of the exhibits based on the color of the shard. It allows the author to systematize utensils according to their functional purpose, and also to make an assumption about the various historical stages of the emergence of different types. Results and Discussion. The article systematizes the variety of forms of ceramics, reveals their quantitative relationships, the prevailing forms, and gives the comparative analysis of the existing forms. The classification of vessels was carried out in accordance with a number of criteria: the height and thickness of the neck, the design of the corolla cut, the diameter of the mouth and the maximum extension of the trunk, which allows one to draw conclusions about the similarity of the collection’s exhibits with other Mordоvian artefacts. Conclusion. It concludes about the existence of a certain standard in the production of ceramic dishes, and on the similarity of the studied ceramics and the collections of Russian monuments. Therefore, it states the preservation of local Mordovian pottery traditions in the course of wide interactions with Russian pottery ceramics.


RENOTE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-536
Author(s):  
Paula T. Palomino ◽  
Armando M. Toda ◽  
Wilk Oliveira ◽  
Luiz Rodrigues ◽  
Seiji Isotani

This paper presents an experience report concerning the use of a platformcalled “Storium” in the subject of “Interactive Fiction” for undergraduatestudents, from a Digital Design Course. The objective was to use the learningtheories of constructivism and multimedia learning to create an instructionalplan devised to teach the students how to create complex interactive narrativesand stories from a practical perspective. During the course, the students learnedthe subject’s theoretical concepts and applied them directly, creating their owninteractive fiction. The results from this research proposes a new approach, usingdigital tools whose resources provides an environment for the creation ofinteractive narratives. These narratives can be used to aid future designs ofinstructional plans for complex writing concepts.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hidayah Kartikasari

Abstrak: Piramus dan Tisbi adalah kisah cinta tragis yang populer pada 331 SM di Babilonia. Pada 1590-an William Shakespeare menulis drama berjudul Mid Summer Night's Dream di akhir cerita, yang memasukkan kisah-kisah Piramus dan Tisbi. Tahun 1960-an kemudian diadaptasi oleh Suyatna Anirun sebagai drama pendek Piramus dan Tisbi dalam bentuk komedi. Pencipta kostum menggunakan naskah tersebut untuk mewujudkan penciptaan kostum teater. Pencipta kostum perlu memahami karakter sehingga tercapai hubungan harmonis antara karakter dengan kostum yang dikenakannya. Teori estetika digunakan untuk menghadirkan estetika dalam penciptaan kostum kertas yang akan digunakan dalam pertunjukan. Hasil proses penciptaan karya busana dalam naskah Piramus dan Tisbi dengan material kertas ini mengalami banyak kendala dan beberapa kali perubahan, hingga mencapai bentuk yang menyesuaikan kebutuhan pementasan. Kata kunci: Piramus and Tisbi, kostum teater, estetika, kostum kertas Abstract: Piramus and Tisbi is a tragic love story popular in 331 BC Babylon. In the 1590s William Shakespeare wrote a drama called Mid Summer Night's Dream that by the end of the story, it included the story of Piramus and Tisbi. The story was later adapted by Suyatna Anirun as a short drama of Piramus and Tisbi in the form of comedy in 1960s. The costume creator uses the script to realize the creation of the theater costume. The costume creator needs to understand the character to create a fitting costume for the characters. Aesthetic theory is used to present aesthetics in the creation of paper costumes that will be used in performances. The result of the costume creation process in the Piramus and Tisbi play with paper materials, has experienced many obstacles and has been revised for several times, to reach a form that matches the stage needs. Key words: Piramus and Tisbi, theater costume, aesthetics, paper costume


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Feraday

Non-cisgender and non-straight identity language has long been a site of contention and evolution. There has been an increase in new non-cisgender, non-straight identity words since the creation of the internet, thanks to social media platforms like Tumblr. Tumblr in particular has been host to many conversations about identity and self-naming, though these conversations have not yet been the subject of much academic research. Through interviews and analysis of Tumblr posts, this thesis examines the emergence of new identity words, or neo-identities, used by non-cisgender and non-straight users of Tumblr. The work presents neo-identities as strategies for resisting and challenging cisheteronormative conceptions of gender and attraction, as well as sources of comfort and relief for non-cisgender/non-straight people who feel ‘broken’ and excluded from mainstream identity categories. This thesis also posits that Tumblr is uniquely suited for conversations about identity because of its potential for self-expression, community, and anonymity.


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