O pojmu genija kod Kanta i Šopenhauera
Kant and Schopenhauer on the Concept of Genius

Author(s): Vlado Jovanović
Subject(s): Aesthetics, Early Modern Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Kant; Schopenhauer; genius; art; will; aesthetics;
Summary/Abstract: The concept of genius, rooted in ancient Rome and Greece, has been further affirmed and (re)articulated through Immanuel Kant’s transcendental idealism and Arthur Schopenhauer’s voluntaristic metaphysics. The ancient world also anticipated the idea of genius, but modern philosophers have provided this concept with additional ontological depth and epistemological complexity. In ancient times, genius was associated with genius loci, a numinous entity tied to a specific topos, a concept that persists today through ideas of topophilic spirits in architectural and aesthetic discourse. Kant regarded genius as a noumenal phenomenon surpassing empirical capacities, linked to the impersonal creative act of the transcendental subject. Genius transcends everyday cognitive abilities and is ontologically connected to aesthetic autonomy and teleology. For Schopenhauer, genius is an aperspectival affective experience of the mind, with artistic creation being its closest expression. Through the stratification of works, the author explores the intrinsic paradoxes between art, will (Willens), and transcendental cognition, developing a complex conceptual framework to understand the aesthetic experience and its metaphysical significance.

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