Sebastian Kaufmann

The article examines the subject of ‘primitive’ art in Johannes Volkelt’s System der Ästhetik (1905–1927) against the backdrop of the broad debate on the ethnological refounding of aesthetics around 1900. Unlike contemporaries such as the ethnologist Ernst Grosse, Volkelt tries to prove that the art of ‘primitive peoples’ is an inadequate basis for aesthetics. In doing so, he follows 19th-century idealistic metaphysics of beauty. However, his argumentation against Grosse and others, which contradicts itself in crucial points, attests the challenge of philosophy by ethnology as the leading discipline of aesthetics at the beginning of the 20th century. mehr

Im März 2016 fand an der Universität von Amsterdam eine internationale Konferenz zum Thema Global Adorno statt, organisiert von Josef Früchtl und Johan Hartle. Ein leitendes Ziel dieser Konferenz ... mehr