著者
金田 千秋
出版者
美学会
雑誌
美学 (ISSN:05200962)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.68, no.1, pp.25-36, 2017 (Released:2018-07-01)

I would like to nominate the thoughts of Hermann von Helmholtz, a celebrated German physiologist and mathematician in the nineteenth century, as a framework for interpreting sculptor Adolf Hildebrand’s great work, ‘Das Problem der Form in der bildenden Kunst’ (1893). It can be clearly inferred from Hildebrand’s letters that he had inspected Helmholtz’s popular papar on the non-Euclidean geometry system. The concept of the “plane” in this paper was decisive. Helmholtz’s thinking experiment, “Can an insect with only plane perception crawling on an egg recognize its three-dimensional curved surface?”, probably influenced Hildebrand’s sculpture-aesthetics, which analyzed the shapes of objects with a series of concepts, “face”, “layer”, “face layer”, etc. Helmholtz’s insight that “The world is made of flat surfaces” had thus profoundly affected the sculptor. What kinds of human abilities are needed to perceive the composition of the world? At the end of the eighteenth century, a controversy broke out between Immanuel Kant and the followers of Gottfried Leibniz about whether to lay the foundation of space on “intuition” or “intuition and concept”. However, Hildebrand’s involvement in this history made him confront the conflict between “intuition” and “intuition and concept”, which unexpectedly led to a serious political and racial problem.
著者
高木 駿
出版者
美学会
雑誌
美学 (ISSN:05200962)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.68, no.1, pp.13, 2017 (Released:2018-07-01)

In the First Book of the Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790), judgments of taste which state the beauty are based on a subjctive ground, or the feeling of pleasure, so that they are not logical cognitive judgments which constitute “a cognition of the object through concepts of it” (V 211) but aesthetic judgments. Therefore, they cannot state truth or falsehood of themselves as logical cognitive judgments do. However, Kant uses the expression of “a false (or an erroneous) judgment of taste (ein irriges Geschmacksurteil)” (V 216). If this “false (or erroneous)” is not logical one, what does it mean? About what are judgments of taste false? Now, we have three leading interpretations of judgments of taste to resolve these questions, i.e. interpretation from an epistemological, moral, aesthetic point of view. But I think that the first two interpretations are not successful, because they contradict Kant’s statements in some points as I will show. Thus, in this paper by adopting the aesthetic interpretation of judgments of taste I shall answer the questions concerned, namely argue that the falsehood (or error) of them consists in choosing an inappropriate feeling of pleasure for the ground of judgments of taste.