“Beauty is Valid Only for Human Being” –- Kant's Aesthetics in the Critique of Judgement

Workshop with Eckart Förster (Johns Hopkins University)
Organizers: Jochen Briesen, Dina Emundts

This workshop with Eckart Förster (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore) will center primarily on
questions regarding Kant’s theory of beauty in the Critique of Judgement (CoJ). In addition to
reading and discussing articles by Eckart Förster on this topic, we will dicuss the following issues:

1. The Analysis of Beauty; 
2. Why is there a Dialectic in the CoJ?; 
3. Genius and Aesthetic Ideas;
4. Beauty as a Symbol; 
5. Why is the Critique of Taste transformed in a Critique of Judgement?

Eckart Förster will also give a lecture the evening before the workshop. (Workshop-languages will be German and English.)

Date/Time:
Evening lecture by Eckart Förster – Juni 27, 18:00-20:00
Workshop – June 28-29, 10:00-12:00 & 14:00-18:00

Room:
Senatssaal V 1001

Registration:
Registration is free, but we request that you register ahead of time (by June 10, 2013), as space is limited. Please register by sending an email to [email protected].

Please direct any questions to: [email protected].