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- Title
Edith Landmann-Kalischer on Aesthetic Demarcation and Normativity.
- Authors
Matherne, Samantha
- Abstract
Two perennial questions in aesthetics, among others, are the demarcation question, viz. what, if anything, distinguishes the aesthetic domain from the cognitive or moral domains, and the normative question, viz. what kind of normativity, if any, does the aesthetic domain involve. Although recent attempts to answer these questions can be found in contemporary literature, in this paper I examine the answers defended by the early phenomenologist Edith Landmann-Kalischer. I show that Landmann-Kalischer answers the demarcation question by blending together a cognitivist account of aesthetic judgment with an objectivist account of beauty, and that she builds an account of aesthetic normativity on this cognitivist and objectivist basis. I contend that her subtle and unified account of aesthetic demarcation and normativity has advantages over other competing hedonist and Kantian views and, as such, merits further consideration in contemporary debates.
- Subjects
AESTHETICS; CONTEMPORARY (The English word); DEBATE; MERIT (Ethics); LITERATURE; OBJECTIVISM (Philosophy); LEGAL judgments
- Publication
British Journal of Aesthetics, 2020, Vol 60, Issue 3, p315
- ISSN
0007-0904
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/aesthj/ayaa007