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It has been the author’s conviction since Kant after Duchamp (MIT Press, 1996) that Marcel Duchamp’s readymades have forced the cultural critic who takes them seriously to rethink the “concept” of art from the ground up, but in such a way that continuity with the art of the past would not be jettisoned. The crucible for this conviction is whether the appreciation of post-Duchamp art is still “aesthetic” or not. Aesthetics at Large argues that it is, that it must be, and that there is no better account of aesthetic judgment than the one given by Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Judgment. Taking ... More
Keywords: aesthetics, art, Critique of Judgment, ethics, Immanuel Kant, politics, sensus communis
Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226546568 |
Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: September 2019 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226546872.001.0001 |
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