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This chapter examines the critiques of sentimentalism developed by Moritz Geiger and José Ortega y Gasset within the field of phenomenological aesthetics. It explores and evaluates the main arguments behind this critique: namely, the existence of an aesthetic attitude, an intellectualized view of appreciation, and the predominance of form over content. Though both authors utilize Kant’s idea of “aesthetic disinterestedness,” they endorse a view of appreciation that differs from the Kantian one in substantial respects.
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Vendrell Ferran, Í. (2021). Aesthetic Disinterestedness and the Critique of Sentimentalism. In: Coe, C.D. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Phenomenology. Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66857-0_14
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