Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Category of the Sublime and the Art of Architecture in the I. Kant’s Aesthetics

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2024 17 (7)
Authors
Pimenova, Natalya N.
Contact information
Pimenova, Natalya N. : Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0002-0622-4465
Keywords
aesthetics of Immanuel Kant; “Critique of Judgment”; sublime; beautiful; architectonics; architecture
Abstract

The interest of this study lies in the field of architectural aesthetics, and that is why it is carried out on the basis of the analysis of the first part of I. Kant’s fundamental work «Critique of Judgment», his main work in the mainstream of aesthetics. The text of the «Critique of Aesthetic Judgment» is examined from the perspective of the content of two key aesthetic categories – the beautiful and the sublime. The study also examines the systematization of types of art in the work of I. Kant, which is based on the word, gesture or tone as a means of communication and expression. Architecture, according to I. Kant, is part of the group of fine arts, or «the arts of expressing ideas in sensory contemplation». This already indicates that the foundations of the Vitruvian idea of architecture, which existed until the 18th century, as a union of exclusively utility, strength and beauty, are somewhat displaced in Kant’s idea of architecture as an art form. And the fact that the philosopher still considers architectural monuments as examples of the sublime allows us to discover an internal contradiction: architecture can only lead to the beautiful, but at the same time it is precisely it that allows us to vividly illustrate the sublime. And this moment allows us to detect a turn in aesthetics, which subsequently made it possible to look at architecture as an art form capable of carrying out supersensible ideas

Pages
1296–1310
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VAACWF
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/153222

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