Winner of the Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize. In this paper, I introduce an account aesthetic understanding. Recent discussions understanding have associated it with justification and why, for example, a given object is aesthetically valuable. notion as form objectual understanding, which refer to ‘appreciative understanding’. Appreciative related partly constituted by agent’s c...

ABSTRACT Taste, as a faculty of aesthetic appreciation, involves an individual, and yet assumes community. In this article, distinctly singular mode being attuned to objects taste is shown be conditioned by the consent others being-with others, thereby constituting what named here ‘aesthetic community.’ This idea community traced back Kant's sensus communis Heidegger's notion preservation: for ...