Zweckmässigkeit ohne Zweck: ideias kantianas presentes na estética de Goethe

• Autor(a) principal: Guidotti, Mirella [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/123315
• topic: Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804 Crítica e interpretação; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832 Crítica e interpretação; Literatura - História e critica - Teoria, etc; Literatura - Estetica; Literature Aesthetics

This thesis investigates the affinities between the ideas of Kant’s Critique of Judgment and Goethe´s aesthetic thought, by dealing with aspects in Goethe´s texts from 1786 on, when Goethe made his renowned journey to Italy, a landmark in the construction of his aesthetics. Through the concept of purposiveness without a purpose [Zweckmässigkeit ohne Zweck], one of the key terms of Kant´s Third Critique, it is intended to explore the aesthetic concept, which states that the artwork ist not reducible to an explanation or deduction in a science of beauty. The value of art should lie in itself; the art has an intrinsic value, not projected for any purpose than itselt. Through the notion of purposiveness without a purpose one should undestand the independency of the judgment of an art object in regard to other spheres, whether moral, historical or philosophical, not instrumentalizing thereby the literary text to any outside purposes, since no external speech is able to translate the truth of the poetic text. In this sense, the term relates the moment of rupture with the normative aesthetic tradition prevalent in previous centuries, as the sphere of art is to both, Goethe and Kant, an area that remains inexpressible. For Goethe, art is also a domain that creates its own world, its own truths, and in this sense should be judged only from its intrinsic rules. The idea of the untranslatability of the art manifests, though in his own way, also in Goethe. From the 90´s on, this idea reaches considerable importance to the poet and even the mature Goethe appeals to Kant and specially to the idea of the autonomy of art. Here, the last Goethe´s novel Die Wahlverwandtschaften is analyzed according to the theoretical premises discussed in the first part of this thesis: the novel´s critical analysis intends thereby to incorporate the concept of the art as an untranslatable domain. We argue that this way of critical analysis is suitable for the ...