Aesthetics and its Future. Problems and Perspectives

Authors

  • Morten Kyndrup

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/nja.v21i39.3000

Keywords:

Aesthetics (as scholarly discipline), history of aesthetics, future of aesthetics

Abstract

This presentation argues that the question about “future” presupposes
an analysis of the current state of the discipline, which again in turn
must be seen in the light of its history. The presentation then unfolds a rough
reconstruction of that history from Baumgarten and Kant, over Romanticism’s
establishing of the partnership with Art and Truth in the continental tradition
and up to 20th century’s settling with especially that tradition, led by endeavours
both within art itself, in the art sciences, and in different branches of
philosophical aesthetics. On the basis of this, it finally discusses the future of
aesthetics: its status as a scholarly discipline, the need for it in our world, and
proposes some issues to be at aesthetics’ future agenda of research.

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Published

2010-08-15

How to Cite

Kyndrup, M. (2010). Aesthetics and its Future. Problems and Perspectives. The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, 21(39). https://doi.org/10.7146/nja.v21i39.3000

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 39 (2010)

Section

Articles

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