Hannah Arendt: Politological Reading of Kant’s Taste Judgment
Abstract
Arendt assess the importance of judging the public world as a necessary condition to achieve the power of citizenship. Having said that, this ability to judge must not be the result of manipulation, nor of any impromptu opinion; but of the applicability of Kant’s judgment of taste to the political sphere. Arendt considers that the characteristics of Kant’s judgment of taste should be applicable to the political sphere because: it broadens the margins of comprehension, built in the public sphere, it reveals the universal communicability of feelings, it is builted from intersubjectivity and not from the “truth”, and it show that not everything is strategic, that the disinterested enjoyment of the aesthetic experience is humanly possible not only with respect to art, but with respect to humanity and to life itself.
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