I would guess that as long as humans feel see taste and express differently, aesthetics is alive and here to stay. Unless Kelly and Pierce get their way and make us all clones.
________________________________ From: Saul Ostrow <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, October 15, 2010 8:32:34 AM Subject: Re: is aesthetics dead? 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)
