Schleiermacher

F.D.E. Schleiermacher's essential move is to argue, while providing an account of self-consciousness which is still significant for the philosophy of mind, that these conditions depend on language, and that languages change with history. Instead of setting up definitive boundaries between art and non-art, Schleiermacher sees the possibility of transitions from one to the other in any sphere of activity. In the Aesthetics Schleiermacher distinguishes between 'identical activities' and 'individual activities', which is his version of what Richard Rorty sees in terms of 'public' and 'private'. Schleiermacher introduces the notion of art in order to suggest how the individual, disclosive dimension of language is always an issue in interpretation. The individuality that Immanuel Kant reserved for the genius in art, who established new rules via aesthetic production, is carried over into all areas of linguistic usage and thus into all areas of human activity.

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Consciousness · Dimension (graph theory) · Epistemology · Genius · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Order (exchange) · Pure mathematics · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy

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  Charlotte Backerra•Rethinking History•2024

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