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A Study on the Aesthetic Subject in the Cultural Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer: Focusing on Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Hölderlin

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2021, 64(), pp.152-175
  • DOI : 10.17527/JASA.64.0.07
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Received : August 14, 2021
  • Accepted : September 11, 2021
  • Published : October 31, 2021

Jung-Hee Chu 1

1강원대학교

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ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is to focus on the aesthetic subject in cultural the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) by analyzing Cassirer’s research on the German artists Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) and Johann Chritian Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843). Cassirer’s research on Kleist and Hölderlin is useful material that can reveal the importance of the relationship between aesthetic subjects and cultural forms in his cultural philosophy, because this research contains materials that could be used to study the consciousness of the artist as an aesthetic subject and his artworks. The aesthetic subject is the perfect human being as insisted by Friedrich Schiller, a playful being in which emotion and reason harmonize, and a subject that embraces an ethical subject. As aesthetic subjects, artists lead the spirit and life of an era as a component of the dynamic activities of culture, and a new culture by stimulating the next generation’s artists through their masterpieces. The two poets covered in this study were also greatly influenced by Kantian philosophy or Deutscher Idealismus and embodied their world emotions and thoughts on life in peculiar poetic forms. Therefore, by examining the ideological changes and poetic forms of the two poets, this study tried to understand the process of becoming an aesthetic subject who agonizes and recognizes modern life and expresses it artistically. With this understanding, this study tried to recognize the importance of the aesthetic subject as a driving force for cultural development in Cassirer’s cultural philosophy.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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