Conferenza ART - Serena Feloj - Università di Pavia
ART (Aesthetics Research Torino) Philosophical Seminar
Prof. Serena Feloj
(Università diPavia)
October, 14th at 4 p.m.
LINK: https://unito.webex.com/unito/j.php?MTID=m84d8c035311e54ae2005099302482650
Aesthetic Normativity: a Regulative Model
The notion of normativity has been key to an actualizing reading of the subjective universality that for Kant characterizes the aesthetic judgment. However, in the scholarly literature little discussion is made, somehow unsurprisingly, of what exactly we should understand by normativity when it comes to Kant’s aesthetics. Recent trends show indeed the tendency to take normativity very broadly to the point of nuancing most of its core meaning. Based on how we speak about normativity in aesthetics, we seem indeed to have accepted that every kind of evaluative process is normative. I will argue that the sentimentalist elements of aesthetic experience calls for a reconsideration of aesthetic normativity in favour of regulativity.
Serena Feloj is Associate Professor in Aesthetics at the University of Pavia. She has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Heidelberg, Marburg (DAAD fellowship), Cologne, Frankfurt am Main and she has been visiting professor at the University of Halle. She was financed for a research project by the Max-Planck Institut für empirische Ästhetik, she was post-doc at the State University of Milan and she got her PhD by the Scuola di Alti Studi - Fondazione San Carlo, Modena. In 2012 she won the prize Siracusa for the best Phd thesis and she was honored by Fondazione Mattei; in 2013 she won the prize Nuova Estetica by the Italian Society of Aesthetics. Her main interests are in Kantian philosophy, in German classical aesthetics and in analytic aesthetics.