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Kant und König über Schönheit

Eine sprachphilosophische Überlegung

Thun, René

Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, Bd. 61 (2016), Iss. 1: S. 57–70

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Thun, René

Abstract

The article poses the question to what extend Josef Koenig’s aesthetic approach represents a continuation of the Kantian approach by means of philosophy of language. Its starting point is Kant’s notion of aesthetic ideas for which concepts – in their metaphorical use – are an indespensable condition. Both authors presuppose the free play of cognitive faculties as a foundational principle of aesthetic experience. While for Kant beauty immediately results from pleasure concerning a perception, for Koenig this pleasure is mediated by the purposiveness of a description of an aesthetic impression. A description is purposeful if it is expressed by an appropriate metaphor. Hence its interpersonal validity is only verifiable by resonance.