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    Disconnecting Reality
    The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 12 31-35. 2007.
    In the Critique of Judgement Kant develops a theory of taste, according to which taste is the ability to make judgements concerning beauty, beauty in nature and in art. These judgements are based on a particular reflective activity, an activity in which the understanding is driven into a never-ending play with the imagination.In my paper I will try to show the actuality of Kant's aesthetic theory as a general theory of aesthetic experience, not only in connection with art, but as a particular ki…Read more
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    Disconnecting Reality
    The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 12 31-35. 2007.
    In the Critique of Judgement Kant develops a theory of taste, according to which taste is the ability to make judgements concerning beauty, beauty in nature and in art. These judgements are based on a particular reflective activity, an activity in which the understanding is driven into a never-ending play with the imagination.In my paper I will try to show the actuality of Kant's aesthetic theory as a general theory of aesthetic experience, not only in connection with art, but as a particular ki…Read more
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    The Sublimity of Alien Space
    Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 1 335-340. 2018.
    In his analysis of the concept of home the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan makes the distinction between homeplace, home space, and alien space. Subsequently, he relates the different living spaces to different kinds of aesthetic experience. Alien space, representing the remote regions of unknown, even hostile environment, is connected with the aesthetic category of the sublime. According to Tuan, reports by adventurous explorers of extreme environments, disclose a mixture of ambivalent feelings, most app…Read more
  • Estetisk eksistens
    Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 41 (1): 64-69. 2006.
  • Bokanmeldelser
    Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 42 (3): 231-234. 2007.