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Friedrich Schlegel on Aesthetics - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 63 Aesthetics/Schlegel/Fichte/Gadamer: Kant's justification of aesthetics on the concept of taste cannot (...) be entirely satisfactory. It is far more obvious to use the concept of genius, which Kant developed as a transcendental principle for artistic beauty, as a universal aesthetic principle. Far better than the concept of taste, it fulfils the demand to be invariant to the changes of time. The Kantian phrase "beautiful art Gadamer I 64 is art of genius" becomes (...) the transcendental principle for aesthetics in general. In the end, aesthetics is only possible as a philosophy of art. Schlegel/Fichte/Gadamer: It was German idealism that drew this conclusion. Just as Fichte and Schelling otherwise followed Kant's doctrine of the transcendental imagination, they also made a new use of this term for aesthetics. In contrast to Kant, the standpoint of art as that of unconsciously ingenious production thus became all-embracing and also encompassed nature, which is understood as a product of the mind(1). But this has shifted the foundations of aesthetics. Like the concept of taste, the concept of natural beauty is devalued or understood differently. The moral interest in the beauty of nature, which Kant had described so enthusiastically, now takes second place to the self-encounter of man in the works of art. >Natural Beauty/Hegel. 1. To what extent the change that occurred between Kant and his successors, which I try to characterize by the formula "standpoint of art", has obscured the universal phenomenon of the beautiful, can be taught by the first Schlegelfragment (Friedrich Schlegel, Fragmente, From the Lyceums 1797): "One calls many artists who are actually works of art of nature". This turn of phrase echoes Kant's justification of the concept of genius in terms of the favor of nature, but it is so little appreciated that it becomes, on the contrary, an objection against an artistic nature that is too little aware of itself._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Schlegel, Friedrich Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-25