%0 Journal Article
%T A Review of Gadamerian Criticism of Kant¡¯s Aesthetic Theory
%A Nil Avc£¿
%J -
%D 2019
%X According to Gadamer, aesthetics, as a human science, became an autonomous discipline in 19th century only by constructing a refined domain of aesthetics objects peculiar to it. In Turth and Method, Gadamer attributes this construction to abstractive aesthetic consciousness. Object is made aesthetic by its detachment from its practical and cognitive context. Abstractive aesthetic consciousness also limits activities of aesthetic practice considerably. Gadamer finds the source of this abstractive aesthetic consciousness, which he examines in detail, in Kant¡¯s aesthetic theory but he also thinks that the very same theory has promising points for philosophical hermeneutics. According to Gadamer the hermeneutical aspect of Kant¡¯s aesthetic theory can be detected not in the part where the pure aesthetic judgment of natural beauty is analyzed, but in the parts where artistic beauty is explained, the concept of ideal beauty is proposed and the interest that this ideal produced is discussed. Yet, it can be argued that a much more promising reading of Kant¡¯s aesthetic theory for philosophical hermeneutics is possible. This study aims at revealing the problematic intellectual relation of Gadamer to Kant¡¯s aesthetic theory and reevaluate Gadamer¡¯s criticisms directed to Kant. With this aim, in the first part of the study, Gadamer¡¯s conception of hermeneutic experience will be addressed. The history of the establishment of the abstractive and reductive aesthetic consciousness, which forms human sciences including aesthetics too, will be given in terms of the loss of the humanist conception of common sense in history. In this historical reading the role of Kant¡¯s aesthetic theory will be stressed, the criticism of Gadamer relating to this theory and inconsistences caused by his positive evaluations will be showed. In the second part, the trace of the criticisms of Gadamer will be sought in Kant¡¯s aesthetic theory through a detailed analysis of his idea of pure aesthetic judgment. Instead of emphasizing the distinction of natural and artistic beauty as Gadamer does, the value of Kant¡¯s aesthetic theory for hermeneutics will gain an undoubtable clarity, if a reading of aesthetic theory which stresses its systematic role in Kant¡¯s critical philosophy will be presented
%K Kant
%K Gadamer
%K Estetik
%K Hermeneutik Deneyim
%K Felsefi Yorumbilgisi
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/temasa/issue/47291/596026