Kant as Propagator: Reflections on Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

Shell, Susan Meld

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“…Investigations suggesting that different beauty experiences may have different underlying neural substrates and may highly depend on the brain's emotion network suggest that beauty experiences may be both varied on the one hand and intrinsically related to affective responses on the other. Contemporary psychologists increasingly subscribe to the dialectical idea (Kant, 1790;Shell, 2002), that the experience of beauty is an emotion at the same time as it is a judgment (Armstrong & Detweiler-Bedell, 2008;Menninghaus et al, 2018;Payne, 1980;Schindler, Hosoya, Menninghaus, Beerman, Wagner, Eid et al, 2017). In music specifically, it has been suggested that aesthetic emotions may arise from listeners forming aesthetic judgments about the music being heard (Juslin, 2013) while the aesthetic experience of music has been described as including perceptual, cognitive, and affective components (Brattico & Pearce, 2013;Brattico, Bogert, & Jacobsen, 2013).…”

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Experiencing musical beauty: Emotional subtypes and their physiological and musico-acoustic correlates.

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Frieler

Bär

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Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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A listener's aesthetic engagement with a musical piece often reaches peaks in response to passages experienced as especially beautiful. The present study examined the extent to which responses to such self-identified beautiful passages (BPs), in self-selected music, may be distinguishable in terms of their affective qualities. In an online survey, participants indicated pieces in which they considered specific passages to be outstandingly beautiful. In the lab, they listened to these pieces while physiological recordings were taken. Afterwards, they provided ratings on their experience of the BPs, where items targeted emotion response, underlying engagement mechanisms, and aesthetic evaluation. Cluster-analyses based on emotion ratings suggested three BP subtypes that we labelled low-Tension-low-Energy (LTLE), low-Tension-high-Energy (LTHE) and high-Tension-high-Energy (HTHE) BPs. LTHE and HTHE BPs induced greater interest and were more liked than LTLE BPs. Further, LTHE and HTHE clusters were associated with increases in skin-conductance, in accordance with the higher arousal reported for these BPs, while LTLE BPs resulted in the increases in smiling and respiration-rate previously associated with processing fluency and positive valence. LTLE BPs were also shown to be lower in tempo and polyphony than the other BP types. Finally, while both HTHE and LTHE BPs were associated with changes in dynamics, they nevertheless also showed distinct patterns whereby HTHE BPs were associated with increases in pitch register and LTHE BPs, with reductions in harmonic ambiguity. Thus, in line with our assumption that there is more than one kind of experience of musical beauty, our study reveals three distinct subtypes, distinguishable on a range of facets.

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Experiencing musical beauty: Emotional subtypes and their physiological and musico-acoustic correlates.

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“…John H. Zammito outlines the new understanding of man as a cultural being constituted through historical process which contributed to the vogue for travel literature: 'The key idea was that the synchronic dispersal of cultural levels demonstrated by the travel literature mirrored faithfully the diachronic evolution of human cultural levels, so that the juxtaposition of the "primitives" (Hottentots or Hurons) with contemporary Europeans told the same story of "civilization" that could be constructed from the sequence of historical cultures from the ancient Fertile Crescent to the siècle des lumiéres ' (2002: 236). 20 See Susan Shell (2002) for discussion of the tensions in Kant's theory of moral education revealed by this passage. Kant is drawing on Jean-Baptiste Labat's memoir of the Antilles, Nouveau Voyage aux isles Françoises de l'Amérique (1722).…”

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Primitive Times

Moran¹

2022

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the author.The author has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.Cover design Clair Durow. Front image: Roman Rock Lighthouse, False Bay -Wikipedia. Back cover image: Uvongo.Imagination withdrew and returned to Africa ... where Dutch and English profit by the Negro millions, those hosts were stirred by vague dreams of freedom. Peering beyond the whole bulge of Africa, beyond cloud-spread Table Mountain, I saw the Southern Ocean, black with storms. -Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker Contents Preface vii Introduction x Critique (2021) and offers a philosophical and literary perspective. More generally, it looks to the work of those who have tried to discover what Hannah Arendt, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, described as 'the hidden mechanics' behind 'the mere process of disintegration [that] has become an irresistible temptation, not only because it has assumed the spurious grandeur of "historical necessity," but also because everything outside it has begun to appear lifeless, bloodless, meaningless, and unreal' (1951: xxvi). 1My contribution is to focus on the historical and symbolic importance of South Africa in connection with these issues, and to draw lessons that might contribute to understanding the current situation. The topicality of the phrase 'global apartheid' to describe the process of globalisation that emerged after the fall of the Soviet Union-but whose contours were already discernibleprovides the theoretical opening. As the rest of the world catches up with South African levels of inequality, the South Africanisation of the globe suggests that the former polecat of the world community may represent the future rather than the past. 2 Unmoored from its native soil, the global 'South-Africanisation of society' (Gorz 1989: 151) denotes minority rule in international decision-making and implies a parallel between Bantustans and the poorer states in the world. It also suggests the utilisation of bioweapons. 3 This is why the building blocks of separate development are relevant, as are the strategies used to defeat legislated apartheid. If '"the Final Solution to the African problem"' (Dick 1962: 30) is indeed becoming the planetary template, then the colonial and imperial precedents of this country might be usefully revisited.The current situation can usefully be viewed through the lens of its colonial and imperial preconditions. Taking the long view, the course towards what we now call globalisation has been charted by predecessors making their own plea for a rational world order. For a relatively recent example, consider The Great An...

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The Concept of Race

Moran¹

2022

Primitive Times

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Every person by nature is racist.-Jon Mills and Januz A. Palinowski, The Ontology of Prejudice W.E.B. Du Bois suggested that perhaps it is wrong to speak of race as a concept at all, rather it is 'a group of contradictory forces, facts and tendencies ' (1940: 67). To call it a concept is already to grant too much because it implies its usefulness for cognition, its clarity and coherence, and hence its validity. And yet, as Du Bois explains his own development his family lineage, and his awareness of other histories and identities, the power of the race resurfaces. His essay on the 'autobiography of a race concept' shows that the concept of race as genealogy and descent is central not only to his own autobiography, but perhaps to the very idea of progress and development itself. Race as species unites the human race, whereas race as subspecies differentiates and atomises as much as it promises to unite; casting us 'to sink or swim in this sea of race prejudice' (Du Bois 1920: 203). But can we jettison the idea of race and retain the idea of the human race? The beginnings of an answer can be found by way of a philosophical detour through Immanuel Kant's textual web. Kant stands at the centre of the genealogical and philosophical debate concerning the concept of race. Indeed, the non-debate regarding Kant's racism reveals the fault-lines of liberal human rights discourse that define our present. KantThose who believe they are surrounded by enemies everywhere … are so often astute at interpreting what others do naturally as aimed against them … in which the mind is held in suspense by means of analogies that are confused with concepts of similar things, and thus the power of imagination, in a play resembling understanding.-Immanuel Kant, "Anthropology from a pragmaticpoint of view"The Concept of Race 63According to Henry Louis Gates, Kant is 'one of the earliest major European philosophers to conflate color with intelligence, a determining relation he posits with dictatorial surety ' (1989: 18). 1 The accusation is that Kant contributed to the legitimation of the concept of race, a concept that has had disastrous consequences for humanity. Robert Bernasconi (2001; 2002: 145) agrees that by inventing the concept of race, Kant gave expression to a virulent and theoretically based racism. The sage of Königsberg, the father of both modern moral theory and racial theory, is also a theorist of personhood and sub-personhood (see Mills 1997: 70-72).Tsenay Serequeberhan concludes that Enlightenment and modernity share 'the trite and bland prejudice that European existence, properly speaking, is true human existence per se ' (2006: 90). Cultural superiority is normalised. European philosophy, and in particular Kant's philosophical and historical texts, accomplish the replication of the European Enlightenment with racist leanings throughout the globe (see Schönfeld 2000: 123). We can add some local colour to these judgements by recalling that one of the architects of apartheid, D.F. Malan, wrote his MA thesis on Kant (see Gil...

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Kant as Propagator: Reflections on Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime

Cited by 28 publications

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Experiencing musical beauty: Emotional subtypes and their physiological and musico-acoustic correlates.

Experiencing musical beauty: Emotional subtypes and their physiological and musico-acoustic correlates.

Primitive Times

The Concept of Race

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