The rigorous concept of aesthetics as philosophical discipline and its critics

Abstract

This article’s aim is to clarify the philosophical sense of the term ‘aesthetics’, which hasboth an ontological dimension and a cognitive dimension. ‘Aesthetics’ has a rigorous meaning assensation, and the modern philosophical discipline of aesthetics emerged in relation with it. It was developed by Baumgarten and Kant. This concept of aesthetics meant an aesthetics understanding ofart. The reflection about art developed by Hegel, Heidegger and Adorno involves a critic against that rigorous concept of aesthetics, and the need of increasing the notion of aesthetics if we expect to continue being able to call ‘aesthetics’ their reflection about art.