Explaining the Ugly: Disharmony and Unrestrained Cognition in Kant

Estetica 11 (2010)
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Abstract

In arguing for his theory of pure reflective judgments of taste Kant extensively analyses beauty, but almost wholly disregards ugliness. We commonly take ugliness as paradigmatic when we reflect on our negative aesthetic judgments, and so does Kant. Consequently, there ought to be a more explicit story explaining how Kantian judgments of ugliness are possible. In this paper I argue that a disharmony is the key to understanding Kantian ugliness. This way, an answer to the question of ugliness in Kant can be given in terms of a disharmonious free play of the faculties of imagination and understanding.

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Values of Beauty: Historical Essays in Aesthetics.Paul Guyer - 2005 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Why Kant finds nothing ugly.David Shier - 1998 - British Journal of Aesthetics 38 (4):412-418.
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