Abstract
A central and often-rehearsed claim of Kant’s theory of fine art is that artworks
are aesthetic or sensible presentations of ideas of reason. This very familiar claim
poses, however, a serious and rarely acknowledged problem: Ideas of reason are
characterized as products of reason’s desire for absolute completeness under a
single concept and consequently as possessing such interconnected conceptual
abundance that they cannot be presented in intuition or represented in concreto.
are aesthetic or sensible presentations of ideas of reason. This very familiar claim
poses, however, a serious and rarely acknowledged problem: Ideas of reason are
characterized as products of reason’s desire for absolute completeness under a
single concept and consequently as possessing such interconnected conceptual
abundance that they cannot be presented in intuition or represented in concreto.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Court of Reason |
| Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress |
| Editors | Beatrix Himmelmann, Camilla Serck-Hanssen |
| Publisher | de Gruyter |
| Pages | 1045-1054 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Edition | 3rd |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783110701357 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783110700701 |
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| State | Published - 8 Nov 2021 |