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21Artistic Manner as Autonomy: Creative Freedom and the Constraint of Rules in Vasari, Bellori and KantJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. forthcoming.§49 of the Critique of the Power of Judgment concludes with a striking claim regarding the freedom required for artistic expression. Kant classifies Mannerism as aping, but considers manner the only valid means of artistic expression. These opposed uses of maniera echo a historical controversy, which finds reconciliation in Kant in what I call artistic autonomy. For Kant, artistic expression of genuine originality requires autonomous action, the individual manner in which an artist selects, tran…Read more
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38Kant's missing analytic of artistic beautyEuropean Journal of Philosophy 32 (2): 360-377. 2024.The Analytic of the Beautiful in Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment is a text of unparalleled importance in the history of philosophical aesthetics. Its main claims are adopted by some and rejected by others. A significant number of responses, of both kinds, take the Analytic to apply to all experiences of beauty—most notably, to the beauty of both nature and fine art. Our principal claim is that this assumption is mistaken. The analysis in the misleadingly titled Analytic of the Beautiful ap…Read more
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38Batteux, Kant and Schiller on fine art and moral educationJournal of Philosophy of Education 55 (6): 1142-1158. 2021.Journal of Philosophy of Education, EarlyView.
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54Kant on the Aesthetic Ideas of Beautiful NatureBritish Journal of Aesthetics 61 (4): 403-419. 2021.For Kant the definitive end of art is the expression of aesthetic ideas that are sensible counterparts of rational ideas. But there is another type of aesthetic idea: ‘Beauty can in general be called the _expression_ of aesthetic ideas: only in beautiful nature the mere reflection on a given intuition, without a concept of what the object ought to be, is sufficient for arousing and communicating the idea of which that object is considered as the _expression_.’ What are these aesthetic ideas? I a…Read more
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66What Makes Kant an Aesthetic Cognitivist about Fine Art? A Response to YoungJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (1): 108-111. 2021.
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26Kant and Hegel on the End and Means of Fine Art. From an A-Historical to a Historical Conception of ArtHegel-Jahrbuch 2017 (1): 35-40. 2017.
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66Natural Beauty, Fine Art and the Relation between ThemKant Studien 109 (1): 72-100. 2018.Name der Zeitschrift: Kant-Studien Jahrgang: 109 Heft: 1 Seiten: 72-100.
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88Kant on Fine Art, Genius and the Threat of Private MeaningKantian Review 23 (2): 307-323. 2018.Wittgenstein’s private language argument claims that language and meaning generally are public. It also contends with our appreciation of artworks and reveals the deep connection in our minds between originality and the temptation to think of original meaning as private. This problematic connection of ideas is found in Kant’s theory of fine art. For Kant conceives of the capacity of artistic genius for imaginatively envisioning original content as prior to and independent of finding the artistic…Read more
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