Benjamin, Andrew (2019) 'In an unbounded way' : after Kant on genius. Research in Phenomenology, 49(1), pp. 9-30. ISSN (print) 0085-5553

Abstract

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.

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Official URL:	https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341408
Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This work was supported by the Australian Reach Council, Place, Commonality and the Human. Towards a New Philosophical Anthropology.
Research Area:	Research Areas > Philosophy
Faculty, School or Research Centre:	Kingston School of Art
Date Deposited:	20 Dec 2018 14:57
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2021 03:05
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341408
URI:	https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/42483

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