Abstract
Taste, as a faculty of aesthetic appreciation, involves an individual, and yet assumes a community. In this article, a distinctly singular mode of being attuned to objects of taste is shown to be conditioned by the consent of others and by being-with others, thereby constituting what is named here an ‘aesthetic community.’ This idea of an aesthetic community is traced back to Kant’s sensus communis and to Heidegger’s notion of preservation: for both, it is the presence of a community that conditions aesthetic experience.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 319-336 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Dialogue-Canadian Philosophical Review |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2021 |
Keywords
- Aesthetics
- Rama, Edi, 1964-
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
- Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
- Pressure groups
- aesthetic community
- Heidegger
- judgement of taste
- Kant
- Nancy
- preservation
- sensus communis