Cosmological aesthetics through the Kantian sublime and Nietzschean dionysian / Erman Kaplama.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplama, Erman, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

xiv, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : University Press of America, 2013.

Summary:

Erman Kaplama explores the principle of transition (Übergang) from metaphysics to physics developed by Kant in his unfinished magnum opus, Opus Postumum. Drawing on the Heraclitean logos and Kant's notions of sense-intuition (Anschauung) and reflective judgment, Kaplama interprets transition as an aesthetic principle. He revises the idea of nature (phusis) as the principle of motion referring to Heraclitus' cosmology as well as Heidegger's and Nietzsche's lectures on the pre-Socratics. Kaplama compares the Kantian sublime and Nietzschean Dionysian as aesthetic theories representing the transition from the sensible to supersensible and as cosmological theories that consider human nature (ethos) as an extension of nature. In light of such Nietzschean notions as the eternal recurrence and will to power, the Dionysian is shown to trigger the transition by which nature and art are redefined. Finally, Cosmological Aesthetics employs the principles of transition and motion to analyze Van Gogh's Starry Night in an excursus. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 On "Transition" as one of the Founding Principles of Cosmological Aesthetics and its Applications in the Kantian Sublime and Nietzschean Dionysian 1

Prelude: The Heraclitean Logos and the Principle of Transition 1

On the Principle of Transition as the Foundation of Cosmological Aesthetics with Reference to Opus Postumum 9

On the Human Faculty of Sense-Intuition (Anschauung) through which the Transition Takes Place 14

On the Power of Judgment as the Faculty that Regulates and Determines the Transition 19

The Principle of Transition and Cosmological Transcendentalism 31

The Kantian Sublime as a Theory of Cosmological Aesthetics Representing the Transition 37

The Nietzschean Dionysian as a Theory of Cosmological Aesthetics Representing the Transition 52

On the Principle of Transition as Genius in Kantian and Nietzschean Aesthetics 65

Conclusion 69

Chapter 2 On "Motion" as one of the Founding Principles of Cosmological Aesthetics with Regards to the Heraclitean, Kantian and Nietzschean Cosmology 93

Prelude: Heraclitean Phusis as the Principle of Motion 95

Kant's Principle of Motion and Metaphysics of Nature 107

Nietzsche's Principle of Motion and the Dionysian as a Cosmological Principle 126

Conclusion 143.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780761861560

0761861564

OCLC:

874928225