From Genius to Taste

I reconstruct the aestheticism of Martin Buber in order to provide a new way of framing his moral philosophy and development as a thinker. The evolution of Buber’s thought does not entail a shift from aesthetics to ethics, but a shift from one aspect of aesthetics to another, namely, from taking gen...

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Main Author: Scott, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
Year: 2017, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 110-130
Further subjects:B Aesthetics Martin Buber ethics genius judgment Immanuel Kant taste
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Summary:I reconstruct the aestheticism of Martin Buber in order to provide a new way of framing his moral philosophy and development as a thinker. The evolution of Buber’s thought does not entail a shift from aesthetics to ethics, but a shift from one aspect of aesthetics to another, namely, from taking genius to be key to social renewal, to taking taste to be key. I draw on Kantian aesthetics to show the connection between Buber’s aesthetic concerns and his moral concerns, and to defend the notion that a certain aesthetic orientation may be just what is needed for moral response.
ISSN:1477-285X
Contains:In: The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/1477285X-12341281