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| Taste: Taste in art refers to preferences or judgments about the aesthetic qualities and merits of artworks. It is influenced by cultural background, education, individual experiences, and exposure to different types of art. See also Art, Artworks, Aesthetics, Aesthetic experience, Aesthetic consciousness. _____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Baltasar Gracian on Taste - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 40 Taste/Gracian/Gadamer: The long prehistory of this term, until it was made the foundation of Kant's critique of judgement, suggests that the concept of taste was originally a moral rather than an aesthetic concept. It describes an ideal of genuine humanity and owes its coinage to the endeavour to stand out critically against the dogmatism of the "school". It is only later that the use of the term is restricted to the "aesthetic". Gracian assumes that sensual taste, this most animalistic and innermost of our senses, nevertheless already contains an approach to the discrimination carried out in the mental evaluation of things. The sensual discrimination of taste, which is the most immediate and enjoyable reception and rejection, is in reality not merely a drive, but already holds the middle ground between sensual drive and spiritual freedom. The sensual taste is characterized precisely by this, that he himself gains the distance of choice and judgement to such, which leads to the Gadamer I 41 the most urgent need of life. Thus Gracian already sees in taste a "spiritualization of animality" and rightly points out that there is education (cultura) not only of the spirit (ingenio) but also of taste (gusto). This concept of gusto is the starting point for Gracian's social ideal education. His ideal of the educated (discreto) is that he, hombre en supunto, gains the right freedom of distance to all things of life and society, so that he knows how to distinguish and choose consciously and deliberately. The educational ideal that Gracian sets up with it should make an epoch. It replaced that of the Christian court man (Castiglione). >Taste/Kant, >Judgment/Gadamer._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Gracian, Baltasar Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19