Kant's Aesthetic Cognitivism

On the Value of Art

AvMojca Kuplen

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Mojca Kuplen connects 18th-century German aesthetics to contemporary theories of self-knowledge in order to highlight the unique cognitive value of art. She does this through revisiting Kant’s account of aesthetic ideas, and demonstrating how works of art can increase our understanding of abstract concepts whilst promoting self-knowledge. Addressing some of the most fundamental questions in contemporary aesthetics and philosophy of art, this study covers the value and importance of art, the relationship between art and beauty, the role of knowledge in art and the criteria for artistic excellence. It offers an insight into problems related to the apprehension of meaning and the cognitive processing of abstract representations that have been of interest to contemporary cognitive science. Kant's Aesthetic Cognitivism presents these arguments in a lucid and wide-ranging engagement with the history of aesthetics and current academic debates to understand what art is and why it is valuable.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-01-23
Mått:152 x 232 x 12 mm
Vikt:320 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350289550

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Mojca Kuplen is an alumni of the Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Austria. She specializes in Kant’s philosophy, philosophy of art and aesthetics. She is the author of Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination.

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In this superb book, Kuplen offers an original interpretation of Kant that opens up a new way of thinking about the forms of worldly insight that art can offer. Kuplen’s model demonstrates that art’s claim to cognitive value lies in its ability to reveal features of the world in ways that cannot be grasped through the exercising of ordinary forms of cognition. Kuplen’s case for this is smart, clear, and of broad relevance. Kant’s Aesthetic Cognitivism is a major achievement.

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Abbreviations of Kant’s WorksIntroduction1. Aesthetic Cognitivism in the Arts2. Kant and Art as Expression of Aesthetic Ideas3. Artistic Expression of Aesthetic Ideas and Therapeutic Self-knowledge4. Cognitive Value of Representational and Non-representational Art5. The Aesthetic Thesis of Kant’s Cognitivism6. Kant and Aesthetic CognitionConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex