Uncovering the Aesthetic Character of the City as a Landscape: Urban Life in Kantian Aesthetics of the 21st Century Cover Image

Odkrývanie estetického charakteru (veľko)mesta ako krajiny: Mestský enviroment v pokantovskej estetike 21. storočia.
Uncovering the Aesthetic Character of the City as a Landscape: Urban Life in Kantian Aesthetics of the 21st Century

Author(s): Adrián Kvokačka
Subject(s): Aesthetics, Contemporary Philosophy, German Idealism, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Spoločnosť pre estetiku na Slovensku a Inštitút estetiky a umeleckej kultúry Filozofickej fakulty Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove
Keywords: Kant; Rubene; Marcelli; aesthetics; city; country; sublime;

Summary/Abstract: The contribution have several aims. In addition to the discussion that follows variability of the concept of landscape and its relationship to the category of environment (particularly with regard to the urban environment, where it appears the concept of environment as a more adequate) the contibution focuses on the specific problem of the current aesthetics: transformation of aesthetic reflection of the city as a whole, which is realized by the contemporary aesthetics and philosophy through the Kantian aesthetics in Critique of Aesthetics Judgement. Elaboration of opinions of Marie Rubene and Miroslav Marcelli leads us not only to summarize the conclusions of recent theses, but further to reflect the transformation of (mega)city to a country, specific environment free from original effectiveness, where "human returns to natural and becomes a sort of huge subject, which is fluid in its inside ..."). Reflection is primarily guided by the category of sublime as an explanatory framework.

  • Issue Year: 2/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 17-22
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Slovak