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- Title
ARTISTIC GENIUS AND FREEDOM OF CREATIVITY IN KANT'S CRITIQUE OF JUDGEMENT.
- Authors
Tolsma, Rintje Theoren
- Abstract
This essay explores Immanuel Kant's notion of artistic genius and how it relates to the modern conception of the interrelated ideas of nature and freedom as they appear in his Critique of Judgement. Genius works as a unique concept in Kant's oeuvre, showing how art provides a harmony within what, in Reformational philosophy, they call the "ground-motive" "nature-freedom." The concept of originality as it relates to genius has the potential for an alternative reading to what was held subsequent to Kant and what is still held today, one that puts the emphasis on a certain relationality. Hannah Arendt's conception of freedom and Jacques Derrida's reading of Kant are also relevant. This essay's reading of Kant's genius, defined by its multifaceted network of relational forces, shows a way out of the bind of the binary nature and freedom. By explicating Kant's notion of artistic genius, one is able to better understand art and its function: probing the complex relationship that humans have with themselves and the rest of creation.
- Subjects
KANT, Immanuel, 1724-1804; CRITIQUE of Judgement (Book); FREEDOM &; art; REFORMATION &; art; DERRIDA, Jacques, 1930-2004
- Publication
Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022, Vol 34, Issue 1/2, p129
- ISSN
0890-0132
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5840/jis2022341/28