Hermeneutic Understanding of Ontology of the Work of Art. Kant's Concept of Aesthetics upon the Notions of Taste and Genius and Gadamer's Hermeneutic Analysis

The thesis aims to analyse fundamental ideas in Gadamer's Wahrheit und Methode (Truth and Method), especially the places where the author challenges aesthetic views contained in Kant's third Critique, Kritik der Urteilskraft (Critique of Judgement). Gadamer's reading of Kant is interesting in various aspects as he primarily endeavours to transcend Kant's radical subjectivisation of art experience triggered off by Kant's third Critique. According to Gadamer this aim can only be achieved by releasing art from its confinement in the sphere of aesthetic perception, meaning that aesthetic awareness as the starting point, which is insufficient and inadequate, be replaced by a wider philosophical-hermeneutical point of departure.