Means without end: Production, reception and teaching in Kant's aesthetics

Peters, G J

G J Peters

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2004
Journal	Journal of Aesthetic Education
Print ISSN	0021-8510
Electronic ISSN	1543-7809
Publisher	University of Illinois Press
Peer Reviewed	Not Peer Reviewed
Volume	38
Issue	1
Pages	35-52
Keywords	production, reception, teaching, Kant's aesthetics
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Publisher URL	http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/jae.html
Additional Information	Additional Information : Refereed journal paper. This paper makes a contribution to longstanding debates about the nature of aesthetic education both as a pedagogical issue and as a cultural ideal that can be traced back to Schiller's appropriation of Kant's aesthetics. It emerges out of a close reading of Kant's Critique of Judgement considered from the perspective of the author's engagement in creative production. The argument is grounded in its reading of Kant as a production rather than a reception aesthetics, as is the norm. This shifts attention away from how an artwork is read, to how it is made. The question then arises, how is it possible to teach others to produce or create? Unlike other commentaries on the subject, Kant's claim that there is no method, only a 'manner' of teaching aesthetic judgement is here taken seriously and brought to bear critically on the existing paradigm of tutor/student relations within art education.