Freedom from Interest? Reflections on Aesthetics after the Kantian Jubilee
https://doi.org/10.26907/2079-5912.2025.1.84-92
Abstract
Usually articles devoted to the work of the maestro are written in anticipation. For the author of this article, on the contrary, the anniversary events and thoughts turned out to be a catalyst for rethinking, in the context of contemporary realities and theories, one well-established in aesthetics ‘Kantian’ position on disinterested pleasure as a specificity of aesthetic feeling and man's relation to the world. The problematic application of this position in Kant's aesthetics is revealed. The article raises questions about the semantic connections of the idea of disinterested pleasure both with Kant's epoch and with modernity. The relevance of the analysis is conditioned by the current situation of a possible significant anthropological loss - the risk of irrevocable loss of the aesthetic emotion under the pressure of the dominance of pragmatic sentiments in modern society. The aim of the article is to discover the potential for countering such risks both in aesthetic theory and in the aesthetic worldview of modern man.
About the Author
T. M. Shatunova
Kazan Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Shatunova Tatiana Michailovna, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Institute of Social and Philosophical Sciences and Mass Communications, Department of Social Philosophy
Author ID 72657
Scopus Author ID 56933802600
Web of Science Researcher ID P-7326-2015
Kazan, 420008
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Shatunova T.M. Freedom from Interest? Reflections on Aesthetics after the Kantian Jubilee. The Kazan Socially-Humanitarian Bulletin. 2025;(1(68)):84-92. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2079-5912.2025.1.84-92
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