Kantian Subjective Aesthetic Thought Outline

Subjectivity thought is the essence and soul of Kant's critic philosophy and aesthetics and also theoretically the basic supporting point of this thesis. Kant not only succeeded the subjectivity thought stemming from ancient Greece, but also he finished reconstructing and transcending the rational aesthetics and the empirical aesthetics in the framework of his "critic philosophy", and realized the utterly transition of the western esthetics from epistemology to anthropology ontology. On the traits of beauty, Kant established aesthetics non-utility, non-conceptional universality, purposeless finality and non-conceptional certainty, and founded the base of subjectivity aesthetics thought. On his theories about sublimity, Kant especially stressed the value of subject, laid particular emphasis on publicizing the power of subjective reason and awakening the inner moral spirits. Moreover, he fully affirmed the leading effect of subject in the unity of perception and reason, individual and society, nature and human being. Kant's theories about art and genius are the natural extension of his subjectivity thought in the field of art creation. Art is the active creation of subject which distinguishes from nature, science and handicraft art. Genius is a kind of psychological mechanism by which subject creates aesthetic ideal, It establishes the rules for art, the characters of genius lie in original creation and example; The psychological mechanism of genius roots in free recreation between subjective imagination and perception. Kant's subjectivity aesthetics thought is a revolution, from Schiller and Schopenhauer, through all kinds of psgchology schools, directly to expressionism aesthetics, phenomenalism aesthetics and hermeneutic aesthetics, etc. None of them didn't seek the enlightenment from Kant's subjectivety thought and give almost all problems of philosophy and aesthetics a humanism reconstruction. So, this thesis aims at regarding "subjectivity " category as the clue and theoretical visual angle, expounds Kant's the traits of beauty, Sublimity, art and genius as well as the influence of Kant's subjectivity thought again, and gives the real kernel and profound intention of Kant's subjectivity thought a overall perspective.