"Kant’s notion of genius is ultimately not a concept of
fullness, power, and capability, but rather marks the abyssal nature of the aesthetic subject—its impossibility."
Kant’s
theory of art is not only one of the birthplaces of modern aesthetics; his Critique of Judgment is also a complex of ruptures,
discontinuities, and contradictions.
Jan Sieber shows that this does not so much testify to a failure of the theory as
rather heralds an aesthetics of the real.
Jan Sieber (1982–2018)
was a philosopher and scholar of art and cultural studies. He worked as a research associate at the Berlin University of the
Arts.
Samo Tomšič is Professor of Philosophy/Aesthetics at the Dresden University of Fine Arts.
Among his publications are T
he Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan (London, 2015) and
The Labour of Enjoyment:
Towards a Critique of Libidinal Economy (Berlin, 2019).
BOOK PRESENTATION
Thursday,
April 16, 2026 - 4 pm University of Applied Arts Vienna
Seminarroom 21, 4th floor
Vordere
Zollamtstraße 7
1030 Vienna
The Department of Art and Knowledge Transfer invites you to a book
presentation and discussion with Samo Tomšič (co-editor), Jenni Tischer, and Jan Völker (both University of Applied Arts).
Das ästhetisch Unbewusste
Jan Sieber
With a foreword by
Mladen Dolar and an afterword by Katrin Busch. Edited by Sami Khatib, Jenny Nachtigall, and Samo Tomšič.
Turia
& Kant, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98514-098-5
To
the book
