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16. Aesthetics as the Precondition for Revolution

Author : Dirk Michel-Schertges

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Abstract

In the middle of the eighteenth century, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (re-)introduced the concept of aesthetics into the philosophical discipline. Based on Baumgarten’s concept of aesthetics, inter alia, Immanuel Kant as well as Johann Gottfried von Herder continued to work on the further development of this field. Both reformulated Baumgarten’s relation between aesthetics and logic. According to Kant, the combination of logic and transcendental aesthetics makes a theory of human experience possible. For Herder, aesthetics is neither concept nor judgment of taste. Rather, the understanding of aesthetics serves to transform philosophy into anthropology. Based on Baumgarten’s work on aesthetics and Kant’s partition between transcendental and anthropological aspects of human sensibility, this chapter argues that Herder’s notion of aesthetic anthropology, relating feeling and history, can be seen as an interesting point combining aesthetics, art(work) and social theory.

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Bildung is the German concept of education and human development, based on the continental-European idea of enlightenment and its notion of emancipation that is to be realized by emphasizing maturity, reflexivity and social judgment, leading to an aesthetic and political consciousness, which is essential toward developing competencies of action.
 
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Metadata
Title
Aesthetics as the Precondition for Revolution
Author
Dirk Michel-Schertges
Copyright Year
2017
Book
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-55800-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-55801-5

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55801-5_16