%0 Electronic Article %A Menke, Christoph %I Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library %D 2010 %D 2010 %G Undetermined %@ 2000-9607 %@ 2000-1452 %~ Hochschule Zittau / Görlitz, Hochschulbibliothek %T Not Yet. The Philosophical Significance of Aesthetics %V 21 %J The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics %V 21 %N 39 %U http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/nja.v21i39.3002 %X The paper asks for the preconditions and the consequences of the emergence of aesthetics in and for philosophy. The question is: what does it mean for philosophy to engage the question of the aesthetic? My answer will be: it means nothing less than putting philosophy in question. Or, more precisely: by engaging the question of the aesthetic, philosophy puts itself in question. In order to show this, I will refer to a brief passage in the Phenomenology of the Spirit and then attempt to turn it against what I take it to be Hegel’s own intention. The paper attempts to sketch this argument in three brisk moves by (1) distinguishing a philosophy of the “poetic” from a philosophy of the “aesthetic”; (2) describing the aesthetic as “regressive” and “(self-)reflexive”; and (3) sketching the paradoxical place of aesthetics within philosophy.  %Z https://katalog.hszg.de/Record/ai-49-aHR0cDovL2R4LmRvaS5vcmcvMTAuNzE0Ni9uamEudjIxaTM5LjMwMDI %U https://katalog.hszg.de/Record/ai-49-aHR0cDovL2R4LmRvaS5vcmcvMTAuNzE0Ni9uamEudjIxaTM5LjMwMDI