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Animated by Poetry – From Delight to Wisdom

Kant is traditionally considered a formalist when it comes to fine art. What triggers pleasure and enjoyment are the formal qualities of a work of art, rather than artwork’s representational content. I argue that, given Kant’s account of poetry, which he sees as most valuable of fine arts, Kant is in fact committed to a view according to which formal aspects of a work have the relevance traditionally assigned to them only because they serve to inspire a particular kind of cognitive effect that a poem should have on a reader. In the first part I discuss Kant’s view of fine art, particularly poetry, in order to set the basis for an interpretation of his theory that would be more in line with cognitivism. I then turn to analyzing some concrete examples from the poetic practice, and I rely on Robert Frost’s poetry to exemplify the kind of cognitive impact that I think Kant demands of poetry

Aesthetic ideas ; Kant ; Poetry ; Robert Frost

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