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Poetry and Play in Kant’s Critique of Judgment

The relationship of poetry and play deserves attention because it throws light on the problem of aesthetic freedom. In creation of and response to the work of art, imagination and judgment are in a specific sense free. Fortuitous purposiveness of the artwork evokes free play of our faculties and a feeling of pleasure, which form the basis of aesthetic judgment. If these relationships are governed by natural causality, where is there room for freedom? Kant’s idea of an intellectus archetypus, an understanding which intuits, as opposed to a discursive one like ours, offers an analogy and possible solution. While in cognition, sense perception and imagination are subject to understanding, in artistic creation and reception, they are liberated from discursivity to produce a “wealth” of images beyond strict “adequacy” to concepts. Poetry, as “art of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a task of the understanding” liberates imagination and judgment to the highest degree.

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