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Aesthetic Engagement, Imagining and the Draw of the Real| old_uid | 18102 |
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| title | Aesthetic Engagement, Imagining and the Draw of the Real |
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| start_date | 2019/12/12 |
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| schedule | 15h-17h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Paradigm cases of aesthetic engagement are perceptual : we engage with the aesthetic character of things by perceiving them. But is perception the only home for aesthetic engagement, or can we also aesthetically engage with things in imagination ? Can we savour beauty imagined, as well as perceived? Intuition may suggest so. And intuition may seem to find support in Kant’s claim that what matters to aesthetic engagement is the character of our representations alone, not whether there is anything they capture. I think otherwise. Beginning with some simple thoughts about pleasure’s motivational structure, and what it motivates in the very different contexts imagining and perceiving provide, I argue that imagining supports at best a pale shadow of engagement, and perhaps nothing worthy of the name. Is there, then, a reading of Kant’s claim on which it is consistent with these facts, or must it too be rejected? |
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| responsibles | Dokic, Hall |
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