... the past, present, and future of the amateur actually are —that is, the connection between critique and desire , if it is true that amateur derives from “ amor ,” love. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 worklessness transindividuation aesthetic judgment amateur mystagogy References...

... of aesthetic judgment, as a judgment that cannot be proven, and that could therefore never be apodictic, is, at least from this point of view, something that pre- supposes a kind of belief. It’s as if each work of art were in a way its own (deictic) revelation, and could only manifest itself as work...

... plight with the mariners’, renegades’, and castaways’, he transformed his commentary into a witness against the aestheticization of the social injus- tice they shared. 2. Doing Justice; Aesthetic Judgment...

... is called criticism. (74; 159–60) The concept of the ‘‘critical fact’’ is fundamental to the theory of aesthetic value and aesthetic judgment that Benjamin draws out of the Romantics. And, in keeping with the conservation...

... that does what Vandover cannot: it completes the aestheticized portrait of the global. Another contradiction emerges at precisely this point, since Norris’s overblown art seems a poor example of aesthetics. Thus, this essay...

... and transform into the objectivity of a textual expression (one of Goethe’s examples is a cobbler’s shop). Within only two decades, the concept conquered a crucial place in the early philosophical discussions about the specificity of aesthetic experience and aesthetic judgment. Kant, in Critique...

... deduction of pure aesthetic judgments. In fact, in Kant’s idio- lect, maxims, as opposed to ‘‘rules denote a possibility of choice. Rather Tamen / My Taste 217 than a transcendental algorithm, they may, but also need not, be followed. Now if the three...

... critics was because the ones I published all offered, I thought, models not so much of decorum but of critical freedom. The emphasis on freedom is exactly why Kant made aesthetic judgment the capstone of his critical enterprise. You will never understand, Kant believed, what it is to think or act freely...

... formalist accounts of economics and aesthetics, we get the reining in of judgment that culminated the bomb had a strong impact on President Conant and all the community of scholars con- cerned with physics. They understood that the event was an epochal one. Conant said, ‘‘We are living in a very...

... clubbiness, both of which debunk aes- thetic choice (as uncool, judgmental, bourgeois, exclusionary, controlling). The intense fallout from our approach is still visible, though there is often a conflation, by those unsympathetic, of theory-driven­ schoolishness and aesthetic judgment. Our selections...

... for ourselves that the artwork has struck us, is the proof we have hit pay dirt, Kantian gold. Kant thinks the peculiarity of the aesthetic judgment is to be found not inside the object humans are responding to but in the responses of the humans themselves. Our judg- ment that something is beautiful...

...” of aesthetic judgment— fallacies that have served to ignore the traits of the poem itself in order to attach the merits of the work to the genius of a self. When judging a work, based upon its intentionality, the critic evaluates the emotional “origins” of the work in the mind of the writer...

...- vated philistine Through readings in art history and philosophy (Kant’s Cri- tique of Judgment), Stiegler sets out to recover and revitalize the aesthetic figure of the amateur from underneath the ruins of technical history. On the far side of the mediocre judgment, Stiegler mounts a defense...

... This inquiry arises from classroom experience, and it begins from a gross aesthetic judgment on the language of a nineteenth-century novel. To understand the aesthetic problem requires reaching out to issues of immigration over the whole history of the United States. Current debates over...

... . Bourriaud Nicolas . 1998 . Relational Aesthetics . Paris : Les Presses du Réel . Caylus Anne-Claude de Pestels Comte de . 1750 . De la composition . N.p . ———. 1748 . De l'amateur . N.p . Du Bos l'Abbé [ Jean-Baptiste ]. 1770 . Réflexions critiques sur la poésie...

... narratives. The first is a study of the gendered gaze, both male and female, as it is consti- tuted in aesthetics; the second is a sustained meditation on legal and the- atrical representations of gender. To some extent, Moriarty’s and Osman’s critiques of fixed gender positions would not be possible...

... groups, supposed plans and projects to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and anticipation of future dangers. It is a doctrine without limits, without accountability to the UN or international law, without any depen- dence on a collective judgment of responsible governments and, what is worse...

... intersubjectivity of aesthetic judgment while acknowledging the power of aesthetics to move humans. Of course, for affect theorists, judgment is not at stake, at least not in its ultraexpeditious experience—judgment arrives belatedly to the constitutively autonomous affective scene. The solution...

... call’’ (311; 435). This absence, the narrator intimates, is typically matched by the ‘‘repulsive’’ behavior of the mass of spectators, a mass that is as passive as it is lacking in distinction and aesthetic judgment...

... of art, like the question of the specificity of the aesthetic judgment, along with all great problems of philosophical aesthetics, can be resolved only within a social history of the field, a history which is linked to a sociology of the conditions of establishment of specific aesthetic disposition...