Održivost Kantove koncepcije sensus communis u okviru suvremene teorije umjetnosti
The Sustainability of Kant’s Concept of Sensus Communis in the Context of Contemporary Art Theory

Summary/Abstract: Kant’s aesthetics has strongly influenced contemporary art theory. His doctrine of the judgement of taste as a subjective and not an objective statement broke with the long tradition of normatively established aesthetic systems and opened up a wide discursive space within the field of art in which the need to redefine the concept of art and the work of art became pressing questions of contemporary aesthetic reflection. The aim of this paper is to try to find out whether the sensus communis that Kant assumes in the process of making an aesthetic judgement can be justified within the framework of different theories of art from the past and the present century. Furthermore, the analysis will contrast Kant’s understanding of aesthetics with the tradition established by thinkers of the analytic line of philosophy, in which the performativity of subjective aesthetic judgement has called into question the existence of the concept of sensus communis, thereby asserting an almost unlimited right to the truth of the subject’s terminological determinations of the basic concepts of aesthetics.

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