Re: is aesthetics dead?

[Saul Ostrow]

Marcuse views Kant  as formulating esthetics judgment as being an apparatus
that mediates between practical (experiential) and theoretical (analytic)
reason - and in doing so  bridging the realm of nature and  freedom - in other
words aesthetic judgment links desire (will) and knowledge (understanding/) in
a self-reflective manner - it in turn reflects the unrepressed response to
nature(the realm of causality) - thus aesthetics become associated with the
autonomy of the individual (subjectivity - not subjectivism(taste)