Erman Kaplama

Cosmological Aesthetics through the Kantian Sublime and Nietzschean Dionysian (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761862598
• Artikelnr.: 40287400

Autorenporträt

Erman Kaplama is currently lecturing in philosophy, ethics, and governance at the University of the South Pacific. He was previously the Head of School of Social Sciences and assistant professor at Fiji National University. He holds a PhD in humanities and cultural studies from the University of London's Birkbeck College, an MSc in political theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in political science from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: On "Transition" as one of the
Founding Principles of Cosmological Aesthetics and its Applications in the
Kantian Sublime and Nietzschean Dionysian Prelude: The Heraclitean Logos
and the Principle of Transition On the Principle of Transition as the
Foundation of Cosmological Aesthetics with Reference to Opus Postumum On
the Human Faculty of Sense-Intuition (Anschauung) through which the
Transition Takes Place On the Power of Judgment as the Faculty that
Regulates and Determines the Transition The Principle of Transition and
Cosmological Transcendentalism The Kantian Sublime as a Theory of
Cosmological Aesthetics Representing the Transition The Nietzschean
Dionysian as a Theory of Cosmological Aesthetics Representing the
Transition On the Principle of Transition as Genius in Kantian and
Nietzschean Aesthetics Conclusion Chapter Two: On "Motion" as one of the
Founding Principles of Cosmological Aesthetics with Regards to the
Heraclitean, Kantian and Nietzschean Cosmology Prelude: Heraclitean Phusis
as the Principle of Motion Kant's Principle of Motion and Metaphysics of
Nature Nietzsche's Principle of Motion and the Dionysian as a Cosmological
Principle Conclusion Excursus: A Cosmological-Aesthetic Analysis Of Van
Gogh's Starry Night Conclusion Bibliography Index