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To examine how Kantian aesthetic judgment fosters the cognitive dispositions and deliberative rationality necessary for well-functioning democratic societies.

August 16, 2026Culture, theory and critique/Culture, theory & critique

Kant’s taste as proto-political deliberative rationality

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PKPatrycja KaszynskaUniversity of the Arts London

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Philosophical analysis demonstrates that aesthetic judgment cultivates deliberative rationality in democratic citizens, highlighting a practical resource against modern political legitimacy crises.

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To examine how Kantian aesthetic judgment fosters the cognitive dispositions and deliberative rationality necessary for well-functioning democratic societies.
Conducted a theoretical analysis of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment (Third Critique) regarding the judgment of taste.
Evaluated the structural parallels between aesthetic perspective-taking ('enlarged mentality') and proto-political deliberative rationality.
Demonstrates that exercising aesthetic taste trains individuals to think independently while actively adopting the viewpoints of others under the presumption of shared agreement.
Identifies aesthetic agency as a pragmatic, heuristic foundation for civic deliberation capable of mitigating contemporary crises in democratic legitimacy and collective action.

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Patrycja Kaszynska (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8179eff2fb91fc834ad613 https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2026.2699747

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Philosophical analysis demonstrates that aesthetic judgment cultivates deliberative rationality in democratic citizens, highlighting a practical resource against modern political legitimacy crises.

Kant’s taste as proto-political deliberative rationality

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Kant’s taste as proto-political deliberative rationality

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