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Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothing such are the examples Kant s Critique of Judgment offers for a free and purely aesthetic beauty. Menninghaus s book demonstrates that all these examples refer to a widely unknown debate on the arabesque and that Kant, in displacing it, addresses genuinely modern phenomena. The early Romantic poetics and literature of the arabesque follow and radicalize Kant s move. Menninghaus shows parergonality and nonsense to be two key features in the spread of the arabesque from architecture and the fine arts to philosophy and finally to literature. On the one hand, comparative readings of the parergon in Enlightenment aesthetics, Kant, and Schlegel reveal the importance of this term for establishing the very notion of a self-reflective work of art. On the other hand, drawing on Kant s posthumous anthropological notebooks, Menninghaus extrapolates an entire Kantian theory of what it means to produce nonsense and why the Critique of Judgment defines genius precisely through the power (as well as the dangers) of doing so.

Author Biography:

Winfried Menninghaus teaches at the Freie Universität Berlin and at Yale University.
Release date NZ
October 1st, 1999
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Contributor
  • Translated by Henry Pickford
Pages
272
Dimensions
140x216x18
ISBN-13
9780804729529
Product ID
4180921

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