We are glad to give notice that the Workshop Kant and Negative Aesthetics will take place in Pavia (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Palazzo San Tommaso, Piazza del Lino, 2 – Aula Bottigella) on June 6th-7th, 2023.
The event is organized by Serena Feloj (Università di Pavia) and João Lemos (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa). Assistant Giulia Milli (Università di Genova/FINO).
For further informations please contact kantaesthetics@gmail.com
Below you can find the program of the Workshop.
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JUNE 6th
14:00: Serena Feloj, Greetings and lntroduction
chair: Giulia Milli
14:30-15:10: Anne Pollok, ‘”Aesthetic Subjectivity in Ugly Matters: Can Kant have a Philosophy of the Ugly?”
15:10-15:30: discussion
15:30-15:45: break
15:45-16:15: João Lemos, “Kant and Bad Art”
16:15-16:45: Beatriz Rodrigues,”The Offences of the lmagination: the Grotesque as a Subtype of Ugliness”
16:45-17:15: discussion
17:15-17:30: break
17:30-18:00: Ilaria Ferrara, “Negative Aesthetics as «Realrepugnanz»: the Logical and Psychological Root of Displeasure in Kantian Philosophy”
18:00-18:30: Anna Enström, “On the lnversions af Hypochondria: Centering the Force of Sensibility in Aesthetic Experience”
18:30-19:00: discussion
JUNE 7th
chair: João Lemos
09:00-09:30: Günter Zöller, “Watching the World End. From the Kantian Sublime to Richard Wagner’s Aesthetico-Political Nihilism”
09:30-09:45: discussion
09:45-10:00: break
10:10-10:30: Luigi Filieri “Counter-Purposiveness and Twofold Affection. Kant on Passivity and Freedom in the Experience of the Sublime”
10:30-11:00: Mark Windsor, “The Uncanny as Anti-Sublime”
11:00-11:30: discussion
11:30-11:45: break
11:45-12:15: Moran Godess-Riccitelli, “Disinterested Pleasure and Aesthetic Boredom”
12:15-12:45: Alessandro Agostini, “Is Beauty really a ‘Positive’ Pleasure? Some not-Positive Aspects of Beauty”
12:45-13:15: discussion
13:15-14:45: lunch break
chair: Serena Feloj
14:45-15:15: Robert Clewis, “Some Problems wlth a Possible Kantian Account of Ugliness”
15:15-15:30: discussion
15:30-15:45: break
15:45-16:15: Conrad Mattli,”The Beautiful and the Ugly as Reflective Concepts. Kant’s Analysis of Taste in Light of the Amphiboly Chapter of the First Critique”
16:15-16:45: Jonathan Johnson, ”The Relevance of Kant’s Aesthetics of Ugliness to Ugliness in Aesthetics”
16:45-17:15: discussion
17:15-17:30: break
17:30-18:00: Rômulo Eisinger Guimarães, “On the «Cipher by Means of which Nature Figuratively Speaks to Us in its [Ugly] Forms»: Notes on the Systematic Function of Negative Aesthetic Judgments-of-Taste in Kant”
18:00-18:30: Stephan Zimmermann, ”Displeasure wìth the Ugly. Are there Negative Aesthetic Judgements on Nature in Kant?”
18:30-19:00: discussion
Conclusion
