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The Aesthetics of Enchantment
Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research
  • Lawrence Kimmel, Trinity University
Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
1-1-2000
Abstract

There are two preliminary things to be stated at the outset of any philosophical consideration of enchantment. First, traditional philosophy has been antagonistic toward the idea of enchantment: as a foundational discipline of reason, philosophy has defined itself in opposition to the non-rational. The main traditions of philosophy have regarded any form of discourse other than that centered in reason as alien, the other, as something which obscures or undermines those procedures which alone can determine knowledge and value. I presume here that enchantment would be considered “non-rational”, and also that such a designation is problematic in a number of ways.

Editor
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Identifier
10.1007/978-94-017-3234-5_12
Publisher
Springer
ISBN
9789401732345, 9789048154050
Citation Information
Kimmel, L. (2000). The aesthetics of enchantment. In A-T. Tymieniecka (Ed.), Analecta Husserliana: The yearbook of phenomenological research, LXV: The aesthetics of enchantment in the fine arts (pp. 189-206). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.