"In an unbounded way": After Kant on genius

Andrew Benjamin

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"In an unbounded way": After Kant on genius

Andrew Benjamin

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The project of this paper is present a specific engagement with Kant's account of genius in the Critique of the Power of Judgment. Genius is a theory of production. Moreover, once genius is linked to production (and not to a personified agent) the philosophical moves way from the centrality of both the given and the subject and thus towards the produced. Such a possibility locates Kant's engagement with genius at the threshold between aesthetics and a philosophy of art. The latter only emerges when centrality is attributed to the object: the object as the locus of presentation. This necessitates a move beyond the cognitive. Kant on genius is therefore at that threshold, on the other side of which is Hegel.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	9-30
Number of pages	22
Journal	Research in Phenomenology
Volume	49
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341408
Publication status	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes

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genius
imitation
Kant
Novalis

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