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[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 1. Aesthetics ]

Full Idea

Kant gave form and status to aesthetics, and Hegel endowed it with content.

Gist of Idea

Kant gave form and status to aesthetics, and Hegel gave it content

Source

report of Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement I: Aesthetic [1790]) by Roger Scruton - Recent Aesthetics in England and America p.3

Book Ref

Scruton,Roger: 'The Aesthetic Understanding' [Methuen 1983], p.3


The 9 ideas with the same theme [general ideas about the study of art and beauty]:

Baumgarten founded aesthetics in 1750 [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy]
Kant gave form and status to aesthetics, and Hegel gave it content [Kant, by Scruton]
Nineteenth century aesthetics focused on art rather than nature (thanks to Hegel) [Hegel, by Scruton]
Aesthetics concerns how we can take pleasure in an object, with no reference to the will [Schopenhauer]
Aesthetics can be more basic than morality, in our pleasure in certain patterns of experience [Nietzsche]
Aesthetics has risen and fallen with Romanticism [Scruton]
Aesthetics presupposes a distinctive sort of experience, and a unified essence for art [Gardner]
Modern attention has moved from the intrinsic properties of art to its relational properties [Lamarque/Olson]
By 1790 aestheticians were mainly trying to explain individual artistic genius [Kemp]