Taste, beauty, sublime : Kantian aesthetics and the experience of performance

What does it mean to have aesthetic experience? Is it something we are all capable of? Or is our capacity for aesthetic pleasure something we develop, like a skill? What do we mean when we declare something ‘beautiful’, or when we dismiss a performance because it is ‘not to our taste’? Is taste some...

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Main Author: Westerside, Andrew David
Published: Lancaster University 2010
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.600789