Kant for Architects (Thinkers for Architects) by Morgan Diane

Author:Morgan, Diane [Morgan, Diane]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017-09-11T04:00:00+00:00

The beautiful is radically unlike the agreeable and unlike the good. It is ‘the one and only disinterested and free delight’ (Kant 1988a, §5; my italics). Indeed, for Kant beauty creates a space for freedom:

All interest presupposes a want or calls one forth; and being a ground determining approval, deprives the judgement of the object of its freedom.

(Kant 1988a, §5)

What is intriguing about Kant’s proposition is that we are being asked to think of ‘freedom’ in terms that are not directly political or ethical. So how does this ‘freedom’ express itself? Or, to use deliberately instrumentalising terms – the very terms Kant tells us not to employ when discussing the beautiful – how would this freedom ‘cash out’ in our society? Kant suggests that the beautiful ‘cultivates a certain liberality of thought’, which certainly does not mean that he equates freedom with the supposed choices that neo-liberalism presents to us as consumers (Kant 1988a, §29, ‘General Remark … ’).

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