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What is Aesthetic Experience?

14 December 2022 @ 17:00

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We would like to bring the following Significance of Phenomenology event to your attention: James Kirwan (Kansai University) What is Aesthetic Experience? Amsterdam, 14 December, 5pm University of Amsterdam Oudemanhuispoort, room C2.17 Abstract: This talk will attempt to answer the question of the title. It takes as its starting point the neglect of the topic within the philosophical discipline of Aesthetics due to the directions in which that discipline developed during the twentieth century. At a time when the theoretical…
We would like to bring the following Significance of Phenomenology event to your attention: James Kirwan (Kansai University) What is Aesthetic Experience? Amsterdam, 14 December, 5pm University of Amsterdam Oudemanhuispoort, room C2.17 Abstract: This talk will attempt to answer the question of the title. It takes as its starting point the neglect of the topic within the philosophical discipline of Aesthetics due to the directions in which that discipline developed during the twentieth century. At a time when the theoretical application – to ethics, politics, etc – of the concept aesthetic is increasing, as if the concept “aesthetic” were a given, this is a striking lacuna. Through an examination of what constitutes aesthetic experience, what it means to experience a thing aesthetically, this talk will attempt to come to a point at which it is clear what needs to be accounted for in accounting for such experience. Our speaker: Professor Kirwan has written widely on aesthetics, in particular on aesthetic experience between contemplation and revelation, on the sublime in Kant and elsewhere, and on interactions between ethics and aesthetics. His recent publications include "The Unconscious Grounds of Aesthetic Experience", "The Aesthetic Idea as the Essence of the Aesthetic", and "Aesthetics Without the Aesthetic?". Professor Kirwan teaches at Kansai University (Osaka) and is spending the current academic year as guest researcher at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis. This lecture is hosted by the Significance of Phenomenology group of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis and the Philosophy Department of the University of Amsterdam. The organizers are Julian Kiverstein (AMC) and Christian Skirke (UvA/ASCA). All welcome! If you have questions about this event, feel free to contact c.skirke@uva.nl.

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Date:
14 December 2022
Time:
17:00

We would like to bring the following Significance of Phenomenology event to your attention:

James Kirwan (Kansai University)

What is Aesthetic Experience?

Amsterdam, 14 December, 5pm
University of Amsterdam
Oudemanhuispoort, room C2.17

Abstract:
This talk will attempt to answer the question of the title. It takes as its starting point the neglect of the topic within the philosophical discipline of Aesthetics due to the directions in which that discipline developed during the twentieth century. At a time when the theoretical application – to ethics, politics, etc – of the concept aesthetic is increasing, as if the concept “aesthetic” were a given, this is a striking lacuna. Through an examination of what constitutes aesthetic experience, what it means to experience a thing aesthetically, this talk will attempt to come to a point at which it is clear what needs to be accounted for in accounting for such experience.

Our speaker:
Professor Kirwan has written widely on aesthetics, in particular on aesthetic experience between contemplation and revelation, on the sublime in Kant and elsewhere, and on interactions between ethics and aesthetics. His recent publications include “The Unconscious Grounds of Aesthetic Experience”, “The Aesthetic Idea as the Essence of the Aesthetic”, and “Aesthetics Without the Aesthetic?”. Professor Kirwan teaches at Kansai University (Osaka) and is spending the current academic year as guest researcher at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis.

This lecture is hosted by the Significance of Phenomenology group of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis and the Philosophy Department of the University of Amsterdam. The organizers are Julian Kiverstein (AMC) and Christian Skirke (UvA/ASCA).

All welcome!

If you have questions about this event, feel free to contact c.skirke@uva.nl.

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