creators_name: Brown, Steven Ravett
type: journalp
datestamp: 2000-10-11
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:23
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title: A Comment on the Mechanism of the Generation of Aesthetic Ideas in Kant's Critique of Judgment
ispublished: inpress
subjects: phil-epist
full_text_status: public
keywords: Kant, Critique of Judgment, aesthetic ideas, symbolic hypotyposis, analogy
abstract: In Kant's Critique of Judgment (CJ), the actual mechanism of the construction of aesthetic ideas is only briefly sketched. I suggest that there may be a connection between certain aspects of Sections 49 and 59, such that the creation of aesthetic ideas can be related to the process of "symbolic hypotyposis" (¤59.2). I will argue that the process of symbolic hypotyposis relates to the formation of aesthetic attributes, as symbols, through an analogical process; that a symbol acts, in effect, as one part of the four parts of an analogy, and that the aesthetic idea may result from the application of the process of analogy. I will suggest that aesthetic attributes may, in some cases, function as symbols, and induce what I will term "conceptual overflow," in which the normal contents of the symbol are supplemented through the analogical process.
date: 2000
date_type: published
publication: Kant-Studien
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Brown, Steven Ravett  (2000) A Comment on the Mechanism of the Generation of Aesthetic Ideas in Kant's Critique of Judgment.  [Journal (Paginated)]    (In Press)  
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