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SUMMARY:'Critical Mutism in Kant and Wordsworth' - King's College/Faculty 
 of English
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CONTACT:Johanna Hanink
DESCRIPTION:This paper juxtaposes Wordsworth’s criticism with Kant’s T
 hird Critique to clarify their influential yet surprisingly disabling prev
 iew of the critic’s work within our modern sense of poetry\, or art\nmor
 e generally. My starting point is that Kant’s explanation of aesthetic j
 udgement leaves to criticism only the most tentative constructive role. On
 ce determinate or ordinary cognition have been\nbanned from properly refle
 ctive judgement\, it becomes an open question what could properly be said 
 in aid of our experience of art. Kant’s own prominent example is how we 
 express that ‘this’ or that ‘is\nbeautiful’ – but then such stat
 ements are themselves a category mistake: ascribing\, as they do\, the bea
 utiful as if it were a property of works\, and not\, as Kant insists\, an 
 index of a certain form of\naffect or experience. Wordsworth’s account o
 f poetry shares much with Kantian aesthetics. Yet it is understandably far
  more invested in the interactions between poetry as passion (one of Words
 worth’s starting points) and verbal communication or\, accordingly\, exp
 licit thought. If we were to look for an original account of criticism tha
 t could help\ndevelop our contemporary understanding of the artwork\, we m
 ight want to look to Wordsworth after (or indeed with) Kant.
LOCATION:The Armitage Room\, Queens' College
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