Edith Landmann-Kalischer on Aesthetic Demarcation and Normativity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4159425 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samantha Matherne (0000-0003-4619-5563, Harvard University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 315-334 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/aesthj/ayaa007 |
| OpenAlex | W3037640555 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Two perennial questions in aesthetics, among others, are the demarcation question, viz., what, if anything, distinguishes the aesthetic domain from the cognitive or moral domains, and the normative question, viz., what kind of normativity, if any, does the aesthetic domain involve. Although recent attempts to answer these questions can be found in contemporary literature, in this paper I examine the answers defended by the early phenomenologist Edith Landmann-Kalischer. I show that Landmann-Kalischer answers the demarcation question by blending together a cognitivist account of aesthetic judgment with an objectivist account of beauty, and that she builds an account of aesthetic normativity on this cognitivist and objectivist basis. I contend that her subtle and unified account of aesthetic demarcation and normativity has advantages over other competing hedonist and Kantian views and, as such, merits further consideration in contemporary debates
Aesthetics · Beauty · Epistemology · Normative · Objectivism · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |