Saturday, February 9, 2013

Crystallization, Genius, Sublimity

In #58 of the Critique of Judgment, Kant examines how Crystallization is a natural process that can produce a beautiful object.  It thus follows that insofar as "nature gives the rule to" (#46) the generation of human Art, i. e. via Genius, a performance such as Dance can be the product of Crystallization.  Furthermore, as has been previously argued here, Genius is sublime.  Hence, human Art can be constituted by a combination of Beauty and Sublimity, i. e. can more than merely present a beautiful "exhibition" of the latter, as Kant characterizes their combination at #52.

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